<story><title>23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/23/23andme-lays-off-100-people-ceo-anne-wojcicki-explains-why.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsgo</author><text>&amp;gt; Wojcicki has theories&lt;p&gt;Think the obvious one is that the results are shared and whether someone is a criminal or not (or will be one in the future), people are not particularly comfortable with sharing to parties they didn&amp;#x27;t initially trust it to for the purposes they trusted it for.&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, I bought a 23andme kit (just the genealogy one) but never submitted it because the labeling was to send it to the lab in the next town that manages the company I work for&amp;#x27;s drug screenings. Well, I don&amp;#x27;t think I have any pre-existing conditions and certainly don&amp;#x27;t do drugs, but I don&amp;#x27;t know about any unknowns on the health side that could impact my insurance if they were to share it to the company. Forget that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobthepanda</author><text>Honestly, I would also say that a partial reason why these would&amp;#x27;ve dropped is that everyone who can do it has done it.&lt;p&gt;You only need these kinds of results once because your DNA doesn&amp;#x27;t change. I knew people who were giving or had gotten these as gifts, but those are one-off purchases. And if you&amp;#x27;ve heard of people doing it then you&amp;#x27;ll do it too but that&amp;#x27;s also a one-off.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;d personally benefit because my family came to the US relatively recently from a country that has very few records going back very far, that haven&amp;#x27;t been destroyed. So what would be the point for me?</text></comment>
<story><title>23andMe lays off 100 people as DNA test sales decline</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/23/23andme-lays-off-100-people-ceo-anne-wojcicki-explains-why.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsgo</author><text>&amp;gt; Wojcicki has theories&lt;p&gt;Think the obvious one is that the results are shared and whether someone is a criminal or not (or will be one in the future), people are not particularly comfortable with sharing to parties they didn&amp;#x27;t initially trust it to for the purposes they trusted it for.&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, I bought a 23andme kit (just the genealogy one) but never submitted it because the labeling was to send it to the lab in the next town that manages the company I work for&amp;#x27;s drug screenings. Well, I don&amp;#x27;t think I have any pre-existing conditions and certainly don&amp;#x27;t do drugs, but I don&amp;#x27;t know about any unknowns on the health side that could impact my insurance if they were to share it to the company. Forget that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Exactly.  Many people naively thought that it was going to be positive.  Build your family tree, get better  ancestry information.&lt;p&gt;Even finding family relations can be fraught with issues like illegitimate children, sperm donors who thought they’d remain anonymous, secret affairs now outed and then there is the other health data aspect...</text></comment>