Are DNA Tests Safe? | Matt Artz | TEDxScranton

[BoiKitty]

You lost your privacy the moment you were born in a federal hospital

[deaconlight]

Corporations taking advantage of their customers via giving (false) promised realities (that can be highly misleading) and then, without the customer’s knowledge, selling their personal info off to other companies. Solid info and exposure

[meghabrahmbhatt]

Great work! Your perspective is refreshing.

[ak-wtll]

This guy tried to take shots at these companies but it fell short, what he said is to basically be careful, but what does that mean, are their reports 50% accurate, 0%, 10%, or what.
how should I as a consumer approach them, what aspects are well established in the scientific community and what are not, this presentation gave no answers

[mikefedorka]

Great take on a widely and blindly accepted service.

[elmartell]

Wait, Scranton is a real city?! :o XD

[autumnleaf]

I said the same thing! It’s a fraud. I say the same for insurance companies

[stormand]

This is generally ridiculous. The concept of "DNA tests" needs to be broken down because there is a huge difference between (1) the actual TESTS (which are 100% accurate), (2) the INTERPRETATION of the tests (which have wildly varying degrees of accuracy/certainty for everything ranging from health to heritage), and (3) PRIVACY/USE of the test data by third parties (which may need to be governed by legislation). ALL of the concerns in this talk are related to #2 and #3. As for the example of mastectomies, the women who got them didn't do it in a back alley or give them to themselves at home -- the procedures were presumably ordered and performed by highly trained doctors who should have been perfectly capable of interpreting the DNA data. Indeed, these doctors would likely be able to order the genetic testing themselves if they wished, even if DNA tests were outlawed for consumers. So it is the doctors are the ones who need to be re-educated if they are performing procedures that they should not. They should be the backstop, just as they are for the unfortunate amount of material patients print out from WebMD or Donald Trump's tweets and bring into their offices. There are other unanticipated risks involved with taking DNA tests -- such as finding out there are family secrets, or that you could aid law enforcement in finding a criminal. But the genie is out of the bottle and if people want to find out the family secrets they can, and there is enough DNA data in public databases now that law enforcement can locate people. For better or worse, this is not going to change.