To duck out of the new ToS, just write this email to legal@23andme.com--
To Whom It May Concern:
My name is [name], and my 23andMe account is under the email [email]. I am writing to declare that I do not agree to the new terms of service at https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/.
Lol that surely can't be enforceable. Imagine "you agree to give us your kidney if you don't opt out within 30 days" sitting in your spam folder. How is this different?
The last time I went rooting around in my SPAM folder, I came back a different person. I am forever changed by what I saw in there. I consider email totally broken in today's environment, but without a SPAM folder it would be closer to totally useless.
With the benefit of hindsight, the invention of SPAM should have told us all we needed to know about the future of the internet. A small percentage of users will do their damnedest to ruin it for everyone else. It's a sign that people cannot be trusted to not use the tech for evil. I'm sure it foretold the corruption of social media as well. It is all SPAM's fault!
But they hold your DNA hostage. Don't you want this company to exist on so nobody gets hurt. Oh, they peaked and leaked that's why the users get TOSsed. Carry on, Sir, baldly into a classy action lawsuit against a bankrupt company were some zeroday employee will get the biggest payout by insurance ever.
yes that ship has sailed but my comment is based on assumption that since they are going for this type of carte-blanch tos update they will be much more likely to sell to anybody going fwd (or stolen). the govt and police one is tricky because that will never go away in this digital age. that is essentially permanent record now.
They aren't the government, silly billy. Just because it's written down doesn't mean that it has value, it's just an (effectively unfortunate) deterrent, since oftentimes a court has to decide that it's illegal.
Hopefully our court system will get some more teeth vs other corporations soon.
Some email providers navigate to every URL you receive to check them for phishing and malware. That doesn't play well with one-click unsubscribe links.
Ah, bad news, you cc'd legal@, which technically isn't directly emailing legal@. We have denied your claim and you will be shot from a rocket directly into the sun next Wednesday.
“I opt out of the updated terms and will stick to the current in place ones indefinitely, including any future changes. I declare myself immune from having to do anything like this again in the future and set my status to auto-opt-out.”
Is this legally binding? I'm extremely skeptical any time phrases like "immune" and "automatically" start making their way into legalese as it's usually something like those Facebook "don't use my photos" things your aunt reposts every few months.
They have lawyers on staff, it doesn't matter if it is legally binding because they will ignore it and force you to spend thousands of dollars trying to enforce it (in the unlikely case it mattered).
They can't tell you your eye color from their DNA data with any degree of confidence, and you seriously expect them to be able to find a marker of something as vague as "troublemakers" ?!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19619260/
"""Nevertheless, it has been estimated that 74% of the variance in human eye colour can be explained by one interval on chromosome 15 that contains the OCA2 gene"""
That's about blue/brown, and realistically, there are a bunch of other genes which also have effects, as "eye color" is really a collection of phenotypes, not just a single one.
maybe not but you can be assured they'll share whatever information they can predict with some degree of confidence with their 'partners'. Imaging FB getting a hold of you dna data (hashed up but still) and pairing it with eyeballs and other info from their AR/VR headsets.
I am logging to my 23andme account to confirm my info and name registered there.
I forgot my password and did a password reset. They have password requirement of 12 characters minimum. A bunch of security theater just to get hacked anyways
I don't give Facebook permission to use my pictures, my information or my publications, both of the past and the future, mine or those where I show up. By this statement, I give my notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, give, sell my information, photos or take any other action against me on the basis of this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308-1 1 308-103 and the Rome statute). Note: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once, you have given the tacit agreement allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the updates of the state of the profile. Do not share. You have to copy.
The difference here being that 23 and me has communicated a specific opt-out process. This isn’t some sovereign citizen nonsense the person you’re replying to came up with on their own. It’s the official method you’re suppose to use.
> 30 Day Right to Opt-Out. You have the right to opt-out and not be bound by the arbitration and class action waiver provisions set forth above by sending written notice of your decision to opt-out by emailing us at arbitrationoptout@23andme.com. The notice must be sent within thirty (30) days of your first use of the Service, or the effective date of the first set of Terms containing an Arbitration and Class Action and Class Arbitration Waiver section otherwise you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of those sections. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, we also will not be bound by them.
To Whom It May Concern:
My name is [name], and my 23andMe account is under the email [email]. I am writing to declare that I do not agree to the new terms of service at https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/.