How to stop 23andMe training AI on your data
What the policy itself says, plan by plan. Where 23andMe publishes the steps, they're here in its own words, read from an archived copy of the page that gives them. Where it doesn't, this page says so instead of inventing a menu path.
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Genetic data is the most durable personal information a company can hold — it does not change, and it implicates relatives who never consented to anything. The statement is careful in other ways: research participation is an opt-in programme with its own consent, de-identified information is defined, and sample storage is a separate choice. The nearest it comes to the AI question is a bullet in its list of collection sources, labelled "23andMe:", saying it may "infer new information from other data we collect, including using automated means to generate information about your likely preferences or other characteristics" — predicting "certain health predispositions" from Genetic Information is its own example. That is a statement about deriving results for you, not about whether customer data builds models. If anything it sharpens the question: predicting predispositions from genotypes means models sit somewhere in the pipeline, and whether customers' genetic and self-reported information trained them is exactly what the document never takes up. No form of "train", no "machine learning", no "artificial intelligence", no "model" appears anywhere, and consent given to research is not consent to that.
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