{"id":71503,"date":"2023-12-07T02:59:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T08:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=71503"},"modified":"2023-12-07T02:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T08:59:59","slug":"crime-awareness-23andme-is-a-dangerous-christmas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/crime-awareness-23andme-is-a-dangerous-christmas-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Awareness: 23andMe Is a Dangerous Christmas Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-71504 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/23andme-1024x984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/23andme-1024x984.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/23andme-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/23andme-768x738.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/23andme-850x817.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/23andme.jpg 1238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"post-hero__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/23andme-hack-christmas-gift\/\">23andMe Is a Dangerous Christmas Gift That Could Have Unforeseen Impacts on Your Entire Family, Your Children, Etc.<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/v74mga\/we-buy-gifts-that-surveil-our-loved-ones-because-there-is-nothing-else-to-buy?ref=404media.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Every few years<\/u><\/a>, I write an article about how it is generally not a good idea to voluntarily give your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/gyma7m\/dont-sequence-your-dna-golden-state-killer?ref=404media.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>immutable genetic code to a for-profit company<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(or any other genetic database, for that matter), and how it is an even worse deal to pay money to do so. It is also not wise or ethical to gift a 23andMe Saliva Collection Kit to your loved ones for Christmas, their birthday, or any other reason.<\/h2>\n<h2>Because our respective genetic code and the underlying business models of companies like 23andMe have not changed since I first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/gyma7m\/dont-sequence-your-dna-golden-state-killer?ref=404media.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>wrote a version of this article in 2018<\/u><\/a>, this article will be similar to those, but the message remains as important now as it does then: Doing 23andMe is an unretractable action that could have unforeseen ramifications not just for yourself but for your family or your possible offspring.<\/h2>\n<h2>First, let\u2019s address the fact that hackers recently accessed the personal data of about 14,000 23andMe customers. Because of how 23andMe works\u2014it has a \u201cDNA Relatives\u201d feature that lets users find people they are probably related to\u2014this breach created 6.9 million \u201cother users\u201d who had data stolen in the breach,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/12\/04\/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users\/?ref=404media.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>according to reporting by TechCrunch<\/u><\/a>. This data included people\u2019s names, birth year, relationships, percentage of DNA shared with other 23andMe users, and ancestry reports.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/23andme-hack-christmas-gift\/\">RTWT.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23andMe Is a Dangerous Christmas Gift That Could Have Unforeseen Impacts on Your Entire Family, Your Children, Etc. &nbsp; Every few years, I write an article about how it is generally not a good idea to voluntarily give your\u00a0immutable genetic code to a for-profit company\u00a0(or any other genetic database, for that matter), and how it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5445,13890,2122,13,74,2086,1317,4912,4126,3986,24],"tags":[16885,8490,16600,7064],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71506,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71503\/revisions\/71506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}