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For $1-$10 per record. Considering the amount of drama made over the protection of personal medical data, perhaps this should give people pause.

The market value of your combined PII and genome is about a cup of coffee. There's not really any market confidence that this can turbocharge advertising, let insurers fleece you, etc etc etc. It's basically as valuable as your email spammers use to send Viagra ads.

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