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Show HN: Free genetic reports from your genome

16 pointsby Beefinover 6 years ago

10 comments

ajiangover 6 years ago
Uh...I&#x27;m definitely not sharing my genome data with some guy named Ethan at unnamed company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meports.com&#x2F;privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meports.com&#x2F;privacy</a>
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flipp3rover 6 years ago
I don&#x27;t understand why you have your privacy policy as it is right now, at all.<p><i>Privacy is important to us. We want to do it right. (...) At no time is your DNA data shared - or sold - to any external party, period. (...) If a genome is uploaded, but the user does not continue and generate a report, the uploaded genome is automatically deleted immediately. As soon as a report has been generated (no more than 10 minutes) the uploaded genome is deleted.</i><p>Wow! A company that isn&#x27;t out to steal your data! Great!<p><i>When using Meports you are uploading your genome to our central website for analysis. (...) By uploading your genome you grant us a temporary, limited, revocable, royalty-free, world-wide license to process and use your genome for the purpose of providing you with the service.</i><p><i>&quot;Vision: We believe in using data and software in order to maximize everybody&#x27;s quality of life. &quot;</i><p>(Actually - you even have a different company &quot;vision&quot; on gene.meports.com. Which one is it?)<p>So what does this mean then? Are you using the word &quot;analysis&quot; to trick people into thinking you don&#x27;t store data derived from the genome on your servers, but you&#x27;re not storing the literal file someone is uploading? While, at the same time, reassuring clients you&#x27;ll never store or sell their data?
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nickthegreekover 6 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gene.meports.com&#x2F;report&#x2F;2347380d-ac31-4f4a-b973-6e18ff4c05a3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gene.meports.com&#x2F;report&#x2F;2347380d-ac31-4f4a-b973-6e18...</a><p>sample report lists GBA under Gene column. I click link, get sent to wikipedia entry for Game Boy Advanced...
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chris_mcover 6 years ago
I don&#x27;t even see a name of the creator on this site. Personally, I won&#x27;t ever submit personal genome data to an anonymous site like this, and no one else should either. Aren&#x27;t there also legal implications to hosting personal health data online like this? I understand they claim to delete the data after the processing, but can we really trust an opaque process like this?
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karambahhover 6 years ago
Looking at the OP history, they only ever posted content related to meports.com.<p>Judging by the titles of the submissions and on content archived by the wayback machine, meports was originally intended to be a &quot;life dashboard&quot; (mood, workouts, etc..) and pivoted approximately a year ago towards its current form, a meta analysis of genome.
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Thespian2over 6 years ago
No indication of how this site makes money, nor who they are. I would be <i>very</i> suspicious.
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hughesover 6 years ago
Who&#x27;s running this? What country are they based in? Why should I trust meports.com not to misuse my genome?
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i_am_nomadover 6 years ago
This looks like it might need FDA approval.
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k__over 6 years ago
Is this safe?
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cryoshonover 6 years ago
can&#x27;t get it to use any data sets that i have in the normal .vcf formats, etc
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