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Everyone is grown so the point of this isn't to encroach on your personal decisions - just a heads up.
Nowadays many insurance companies (health and life) are starting to incorporate into their agreements a question of whether you've utilized a genetic testing service. Obviously the idea is that if you have they'd be interested in gaining access to that information in order to determine whether they want to insure you.
If you have but answer no that can be considered fraud. Now, are they going to go after people criminally? Probably not. But if you find out one day that you're genetically predisposed to a certain condition and the insurance company somehow finds out they will try to use that to leave you on the hook for any costs.
We all know the insurance companies own Washington - I'm sure at some point it's going to be a major policy objective of theirs to be able to partner with these testing companies to have access to a database of its users.
Or even more likely they will just buy up some of these companies and take ownership of all documents/information of previous customers.
Here's a decent write up of the security concerns for those interested.
https://gizmodo.com/what-dna-testing-companies-terrifying-privacy-policies-1819158337
Nowadays many insurance companies (health and life) are starting to incorporate into their agreements a question of whether you've utilized a genetic testing service. Obviously the idea is that if you have they'd be interested in gaining access to that information in order to determine whether they want to insure you.
If you have but answer no that can be considered fraud. Now, are they going to go after people criminally? Probably not. But if you find out one day that you're genetically predisposed to a certain condition and the insurance company somehow finds out they will try to use that to leave you on the hook for any costs.
We all know the insurance companies own Washington - I'm sure at some point it's going to be a major policy objective of theirs to be able to partner with these testing companies to have access to a database of its users.
Or even more likely they will just buy up some of these companies and take ownership of all documents/information of previous customers.
Here's a decent write up of the security concerns for those interested.
https://gizmodo.com/what-dna-testing-companies-terrifying-privacy-policies-1819158337
