(10-14-2015 12:09 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 11:52 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 11:21 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 11:16 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 11:05 AM)VA49er Wrote:  It's not that, it's what the companies can then do with that info that is worrisome.

Like what? Sell you medication?

Like sell the info to other companies that can then use that infor to deny coverage, etc. Stuff like that.

Thanks to Obamacare, that can't happen.

Be more specific because if you are talking about health insurance then the statement is 100% correct.

(10-14-2015 10:23 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(10-13-2015 07:44 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  http://www.newser.com/story/214343/ances...risks.html

Quote:Welcome to what Smithsonian Magazine calls "the outlaw edge of the genetic testing world." Ancestry.com, which claims to have amassed genetic information on more than 1 million customers through its $99 DNA kits, is in early talks with the FDA to use that information to tell customers about their risk of disease and other health information, the Verge reports.

information is going to be used in ways that nobody has thought about......

it's only the beginning....

one can't escape this shite.....

edit: the day cash becomes invalid....you don't want to know.....

I know it wasn't a great movie, but I thought everyone had seen Gattaca?

query that movie....you will see how I've referenced that movie in the past....

easily one of my faves in premise....

one day they will eradicate fitzie types.....the aup doesn't cover those yet

(10-14-2015 01:01 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(10-14-2015 10:23 AM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(10-13-2015 07:44 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  http://www.newser.com/story/214343/ances...risks.html

Quote:Welcome to what Smithsonian Magazine calls "the outlaw edge of the genetic testing world." Ancestry.com, which claims to have amassed genetic information on more than 1 million customers through its $99 DNA kits, is in early talks with the FDA to use that information to tell customers about their risk of disease and other health information, the Verge reports.

information is going to be used in ways that nobody has thought about......

it's only the beginning....

one can't escape this shite.....

edit: the day cash becomes invalid....you don't want to know.....

I know it wasn't a great movie, but I thought everyone had seen Gattaca?

query that movie....you will see how I've referenced that movie in the past....

easily one of my faves in premise....

Excellent movie.