In a letter to victims who filed a lawsuit against the company, 23andMe blames its breach on customers for reusing passwords.

Hope this isn’t a repeated submission. Funny how they’re trying to deflect blame after they tried to change the EULA post breach.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    9 months ago

    This is always the most short-sighted kind of comment on the internet, I don’t assume you’re ignorant, I assume you’re selfish - Do you not see a responsibility to future generations in any of your actions or are you just here to “get yours” and check out?

    While there are real and immediate dangers today, our responsibility in this moment is to be a firm NO so that these things don’t find their extremes in our lifetime or beyond. You’re the frog in the pot of cold water, but the burner is turned on beneath you.

    “What the fuck are you guys talking about man? being all hysterical and shit? The water is comfortable right now, even a bit cold”

    • Llewellyn@lemm.eeEnglish
      52·
      9 months ago

      Anyone can obtain your DNA by picking a single hair of yours or a dirty napkin. Your DNA is an open secret.

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        42·
        9 months ago

        And there would likely be legal ramifications if they actually used that information in a way that harmed me. That’s not so clear when given up willingly.

      • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        And anyone can hate a group of people, the difference between that hate staying small, isolated and relatively contained is organization and systemization - so for example, IBM catalogues and analyzes data for the nazis and you then get an amplification of strength of that hatred that effectively results in the holocaust (instead of something that would have maybe been more like Putin’s limp, flailing invasion of Ukraine).

        Yes I can pull a single hair from your head, but if I create a machine where you and 50 million of your friends send me that hair, pay me for the privilege and I then sell the data or it gets breached, that’s where we start to get into the danger zone.

        Those of you here being contrarians for the sake of it are on the wrong side of history. Learn a book, shitheads.

      • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        You’re very confidently ignorant. I’m glad this is only an internet conversation and it can just full stop here - I do feel bad for the people that have to suffer you daily in real life though.