> Well by that standard is not worth protecting your privacy at all, after all the probability of any of your data being used against you is extremely low. And it's a difficult point to argue, because obviously it's true
Correct, this is exactly the point I'm making.
To recap: the point is that it is not necessarily the case that someone who sends their DNA to 23&Me is ignorant of the risks or stupid; it's entirely possible that they objectively analyzed the risks and decided it's not serious enough to care.
> but still, why take the risk?
For the same reason I walk outside without wearing a helmet to prevent me from bricks that could randomly fall from building facades. Mitigating the risk is not worth it, to me, relative to the hassle of doing so.
