23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century
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The robotics explosion. The energy revolution. The cultural takeover. It’s everything you wanted for the United States—but done better in China.
  • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    wojak-nooo don’t you see? We have to only let the government access our DNA databases and they have to be housed in Israel!! Nooo you can’t make them accessible to the public so they know what’s being tracked and maybe they can use it for fun stuff too!! It’s different when people in China voluntarily enter their DNA into a database than when we either scam them with a “private” company or just force people to do it

    • Runcible [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      don’t you see? We have to only let the government access our DNA databases

      Possibly better than what is/was actually happening. IIRC 23andme “owned” the genetic data from their customer and sold it off as part of a merger or bankruptcy or something?

        • Runcible [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          20·
          2 months ago

          I think they were sharing it with police without warrants but no, scanning headlines and grabbing a snippet from a random one (Fortune) gives me this “A U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled DNA-testing company 23andMe, which filed for bankruptcy Sunday, has the right to sell customers’ medical and ancestry data to potential bidders. Offers will be due on May 7, and a final hearing will be held in June.”

        • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          2 months ago

          It’s digital data, copies can and were/are sold to multiple entities including governments and other companies. The US state and it’s LEOs have it, and I don’t have a source for this but I assume companies like Palantir in the panopticon game have it too