this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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Different levels of privacy. Electronic payments only reveal what you buy and at least serves a utility. 23andme is just for vanity and could reveal your preexisting conditions or family tree to people who would use it against you.
Each transaction isn't that much. Beating the path toward a cashless economy is a different story.
Do you remember the pregnant teenager outed to her parents over big data advertising?
All I'm saying is that the two are not equivalent and people aren't hypocrites for doing eletronics payments, but refusing vanity dna tests.