80% of people agreed to give consent, and only the data of those people are being used for research purposes.
It is furthermore used at a population level, and in anonymous fashion. Your individual genetic data is not very useful as a singleton, it is only useful in large numbers to do GWAS (genome-wide association studies) to identify novel disease-gene relationships.
This is not the first GSK collaboration with 23andMe. They identified a novel cancer target now being further developed CD96. So... wow, what a terrible thing, you may now have contributed in a tiny way to people potentially getting life-extending medication. What terrible abuse.
23andMe has about 14million customers. 80% of that is about 11M customers. GSK is paying $20M per year I think. So that's about $2 per customer, if we're being generous. Would you feel less abused if each customer got a $2 discount or rebate?
It is furthermore used at a population level, and in anonymous fashion. Your individual genetic data is not very useful as a singleton, it is only useful in large numbers to do GWAS (genome-wide association studies) to identify novel disease-gene relationships.
This is not the first GSK collaboration with 23andMe. They identified a novel cancer target now being further developed CD96. So... wow, what a terrible thing, you may now have contributed in a tiny way to people potentially getting life-extending medication. What terrible abuse.
23andMe has about 14million customers. 80% of that is about 11M customers. GSK is paying $20M per year I think. So that's about $2 per customer, if we're being generous. Would you feel less abused if each customer got a $2 discount or rebate?