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bigblu89 posted...

1 - Gotta read the fine print on those ancestry sites, because many times you're actually agreeing to have your DNA be put in a database for use in things like this.

I'm not very clued up on law but is there a term for insidious agreements in T&Cs documents? Like every website you go on presents a thesis of information that literally no one in their right mind is reading unless you have a few hours to pour through pages of legalese every time you want to order a bathroom matt or whatever.

Maybe this is a core agreement for these sorts of sites but my general point is that we're in a pretty shitty situation where we're expected to just be ok with signing away our data all the time simply because it says it there in the privacy policy, while having no idea what that actually looks like in the practical sense. The cambridge analytica case was a good example of this. People sign up to facebook to post pictures of their grandkids for their friends, not to have their data sold off to third parties for voter manipulation.