Just to be clear, we are not ourselves working on private home sequencing.

I'm aware of people working on at-home devices but that is not our own approach.

We are just working on a mixing service to anonymize data user identities as their samples and data move through labs, logistics, etc.

Legal protections around genetic data can easily be rolled back in several ways, both incremental and drastic.

While it's true someone's DNA can easily be collected by a sufficiently motivated party, there is still a need at scale for something regular people can use to investigate their ancestry and predispositions without becoming datasets for unheeding organizations.

The 23andMe hacks, for example, should be a sobering realization that personal genomics is a systemic risk for several classes of people.