>23andMe introduced relative finder not long ago. I hadn't logged on in over 2 years after I did it with a groupon promo, but I had a public profile with my name and city.
That's scary. Did you explicitly consent to that? It sounds like you didn't...
Only on Hacker News would the top reply to a comment about a person discovering their father was not their biological father be about privacy and opt-ins...
No, he's merely saying that we are more privacy-conscious than the average group of people. I don't think he was claiming that was good or bad, just abnormal.
I read it as "Only on hacker news [insert good thing here]", and I agree with that sentiment, whether it was the intent or not. I think people caring a lot about privacy and issues like that is one reason I really like this place.
That's scary. Did you explicitly consent to that? It sounds like you didn't...