https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/All-your-genes-are-belong-to-us-but-we-ll-give-you-music/m-p/15045#M1635 <P>Apparently ancestry no longer use that wording as of April this year &nbsp;- it does chime with GDPR &nbsp;paining in, and the text is pretty toxic to their business.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Digression...I’ve always(ok rarely, but sometimes) wondered why ownership of copyright of DNA, or at least patents on Gene’s were allowed - the genes the proteins they encode(or indeed the cruft* of lazy junk DNA that does nothin but take up space on its ribosomes couch) existed a long time people started describing them, and it seems that there isn’t much incentive needed for sequencing.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>* Ok, probably not accurate, or at least highly misleading &nbsp;-but amusing. David Zindell posits human descendants that had edited out their Junk DNA in his novel&nbsp;Neverness. Quite a few of these post humans were pretty lousy people(for example one group took to wearing rings that denoted competence at poetry and murder). As a result there were laws that stated ‘your DNA belongs to the species**’.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>** Perhaps humans should have to pay royalties on their genes to their parents for DNA recombination and useful mutation, broken down 51 to 49% in favour of the mother as a nod to mitochondria...</P> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 21:09:28 GMT Early_Adopter 2018-09-27T21:09:28Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/All-your-genes-are-belong-to-us-but-we-ll-give-you-music/m-p/15035#M1634 <P>Pay $99, spit in the tube, send it off--and Ancestry will get <A href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/09/27/spotify-offers-playlists-tailored-to-your-dna/" target="_blank">Spotify to make up a playlist, just for you, based on your DNA</A>!&nbsp; (Well, maybe not exactly based on your DNA, more like "greatest hits of some of your ancestors" type of thing.)</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Having read the agreement thoroughly, you will, of course, have noticed that by doing so Ancestry claims all rights over your DNA.&nbsp; Forever.&nbsp; Yes, the same Ancestry that is part of a <A href="https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Your-DNA-is-finally-safe-NOT/m-p/13196#M1318" target="_blank">group that pretends to be protecting your DNA info but probably isn't</A>.</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 08:57:42 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/All-your-genes-are-belong-to-us-but-we-ll-give-you-music/m-p/15035#M1634 rslade 2023-10-09T08:57:42Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/All-your-genes-are-belong-to-us-but-we-ll-give-you-music/m-p/15045#M1635 <P>Apparently ancestry no longer use that wording as of April this year &nbsp;- it does chime with GDPR &nbsp;paining in, and the text is pretty toxic to their business.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Digression...I’ve always(ok rarely, but sometimes) wondered why ownership of copyright of DNA, or at least patents on Gene’s were allowed - the genes the proteins they encode(or indeed the cruft* of lazy junk DNA that does nothin but take up space on its ribosomes couch) existed a long time people started describing them, and it seems that there isn’t much incentive needed for sequencing.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>* Ok, probably not accurate, or at least highly misleading &nbsp;-but amusing. David Zindell posits human descendants that had edited out their Junk DNA in his novel&nbsp;Neverness. Quite a few of these post humans were pretty lousy people(for example one group took to wearing rings that denoted competence at poetry and murder). As a result there were laws that stated ‘your DNA belongs to the species**’.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>** Perhaps humans should have to pay royalties on their genes to their parents for DNA recombination and useful mutation, broken down 51 to 49% in favour of the mother as a nod to mitochondria...</P> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 21:09:28 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/All-your-genes-are-belong-to-us-but-we-ll-give-you-music/m-p/15045#M1635 Early_Adopter 2018-09-27T21:09:28Z