Your Genetic Info: From Big Pharma Profit to Global Human Control

Examining the 23&Me controversy against the backdrop of global government ops

Recently, all of 23andMe’s independent directors resigned from its board. The exact specifics of the move were shrouded in relative corporate secrecy. The popular genetic-testing company’s co-founder Anne Wojcicki had been jockeying to take the company private. The directors said their departures were for the best due to Wojcicki’s concentrated voting power and a “clear” difference of opinion on the company’s future according to AP.

Starting in 2006, 23&Me was the first company to offer what are called autosomal DNA tests – which analyze the chromosomes you inherit from both parents. 

Klaus Schub’s World Economic Forum (WEF) had an eye on 23&Me from its inception choosing the genetics company to be the WEF’s 2008 Technology Pioneer.

Forbes described the company as, “…one of the world's hottest startups for its meteoric rise and star-studded celebrity “spit parties” at Davos and New York Fashion Week.” 

The early fascade of giving up your genetic information for fun quickly evaporated.  

What started as a front-facing designer genetics company for consumers was aggressively angling in the background to towards becoming a full-fledged biotech player.

Collaborations with Pfizer, GSK, and others to use 23&Me’s consumer genetic data for drug development signaled the company had aims other than low-level, boutique ancestry musings.   

“We have real labs,” Anne Wojcicki company co-founder and CEO said in an interview last year. “Scientists, pipettes. Doing functional genomics experiments. We have 100 people doing therapeutics research. We have gone entirely from genetic data, hypothesis, early research, to filing an IND and actually in human studies with a Phase 2a program.”

The stark reality of having large swaths of highly-prized genetic information available in the digital age came in focus as COVID hit. As the public’s awareness was kept complacent with childlike interpretations of what genetic testing can accomplish, governments and international players were storming the gates. 

Rapidly expanding artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum computing were now meeting with genetic and biological research for competitive leverage, espionage, and even global control of humanity.  

In 2021, a report by the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned, “…biotechnology can be misused to create virulent pathogens that can target our food supply or even the human population. Genomic technology used to design disease therapies tailored to an individual also can be used to identify genetic vulnerabilities in a population. Large genetic databases that allow people’s ancestry to be revealed and crimes to be solved also can be misused for surveillance and societal repression.”

In particular, the intel report cites China as a primary threat to this global data grab as they already operate a domestic Military-Civil Fusion Policy and a National Intelligence Law requiring all Chinese entities to share technology and information with the PRC military, intelligence, and security services. 

23&Me, the private sector’s genetic testing frontrunner, paid little heed to these U.S. intelligence warnings claiming their customer's genetic info was secure.  

Yet looking at the top direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies (including 23&Me), Consumer Reports found in 2022: 

“The companies’ services over-collect personal information about you and overshare some of your data with third parties. CR’s privacy experts say it’s unclear why collecting—and then sharing—much of this data is necessary to provide you the services they offer.”

Shortly after in 2023, hackers breached the data of roughly half of 23&Me’s consumers as 6.9 million customers were affected. 

In their regulatory filing to the SEC about the hack, 23&Me stated that “threat actors” were able to access “a significant number of files containing profile information about other users’ ancestry”

The Guardian wrote about the hack, “The hackers claimed the sample contained 1m data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews. According to the outlet, there also seemed to be hundreds of thousands of users of Chinese heritage affected by the leak.”

23&Me both downplayed the hack and bizarrely blamed the victims of the attack publicly stating, “The information that was potentially accessed cannot be used for any harm.” It also cast blame for the hack on users who “negligently recycled and failed to update their passwords.”

Subject of both the hack attack and U.S. intel warning, a possible dystopian future was already playing out in China where surveillance has integrated AI and genetic info into a nightmarish tracking system with corporate and academic help from the United States. In 2019, the NY Times reported:

“China wants to make the country’s Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, more subservient to the Communist Party. It has detained up to a million people in what China calls “re-education” camps, drawing condemnation from human rights groups and a threat of sanctions from the Trump administration.”

In Xinjiang, in northwestern China, the [mandatory] program was known as “Physicals for All.”

From 2016 to 2017, nearly 36 million people took part in it, according to Xinhua, China’s official news agency. The authorities collected DNA samples, images of irises and other personal data, according to Uighurs and human rights groups.

Collecting genetic material is a key part of China’s campaign, according to human rights groups and Uighur activists. They say a comprehensive DNA database could be used to chase down any Uighurs who resist conforming to the campaign.

To bolster their DNA capabilities, scientists affiliated with China’s police used equipment made by Thermo Fisher, a Massachusetts company. For comparison with Uighur DNA, they also relied on genetic material from people around the world that was provided by Kenneth Kidd, a prominent Yale University geneticist.

Meanwhile, a Reuters investigation revealed that BGI, a top-selling Chinese gene company’s prenatal test used by women globally, is collecting genetic data from millions of women for sweeping research on the traits of populations in collaboration with the Chinese military. 

“The technology could propel China to dominate global pharmaceuticals, and also potentially lead to genetically enhanced soldiers, or engineered pathogens to target the U.S. population or food supply, U.S. advisors said."

With the Chinese example of a benevolent health program providing cover for raw genetic power grab what’s happening here in the U.S.?

As some governments have taken a subversive, anti-human posture with genetic info and AI, the U.S. has long had a mandatory, state-based newborn genetic screening public health genetic program in the United States for some time. Blood is taking from newborn babies and send to labs for testing. 

A 2010 Roundtable on Genomic-Based Research for Health held by the Institute of Medicine stated: “Because these tests are directly in the interest of infants, this gives states the right to mandate the tests without first obtaining informed consent from the parents…”

In 2013 the Obama Administration launched the Brain Initiative with a primary goal of linking brain activity to behavior using emerging tools of optogenetics, chemogenetics, and biochemical and electromagnetic modulation of circuit manipulation to change neural patterns in animals and human patients. 

The working group’s report to the NIH advisory committee at the time suggested this work will “change human society forever” so we “…understand ourselves differently, treat disease more incisively, educate our children more effectively, practice law and governance with greater insight…”

In 2015 the Obama Administration launched the Precision Medicine Initiative, a $215M program green-lighting the NIH fund to create a national research program tracking the data of 1 million volunteer donors including their DNA sequences “…genes, metabolites (chemical makeup), and microorganisms in and on the body.”

One thing is for sure, our genetics are the final frontier between our physical bodies, informational energetics, and our entire family lineages. There is a reason authoritarian-leaning entities are falling all over themselves to gain access to it, en masse, and run it through AI and machine learning algorithms for endless possibilities. Some of which have the capabilities to dangerously curtail humanity in ways never before imagined.