Ancestry Made Its Privacy Policy More Transparent, but It Still Claims to Own Your DNA

By Kristen V. Brown

AncestryDNA, owned by the company behind family-tree website Ancestry.com, has taken at least one step toward making its policies more transparent. The company’s privacy policy and terms of use agreements have been updated so that they are actually easy to understand for anyone with a basic command of English.

In addition to simplified language, the company combined its policies for Ancestry and AncestryDNA so that users can find them in one place instead of two. The company’s launched a new Privacy center that make key parts of the policies easily visible.

Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you should never ever do a consumer DNA test. DNA tests can be fun and sometimes even informative. But you should be aware of what you’re giving away when you give up access to your genetic information. And Ancestry’s new, more transparent policy is a good step toward helping us all be more aware.

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