Ask HN: Where can I genetically test myself without risking privacy?

MyHeritage has a long and detailed privacy policy. Seems like that they are aiming to meet EU standards. Don't have personal experience though, and they might not provide everything what you are looking for.

We're building this at Monadic DNA.

I recently posted about our first stab at this at https://vishakh.blog/2025/07/08/using-mpc-for-anonymous-and-....

We'll have a waitlist up pretty soon for people to sign up for a batch of private sequencing.

Your doctor ?

It's a bad idea for a bunch of reasons but you could always do it yourself: https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/minion

no, not in the sense of total privacy. Outside of that, I would at least go with someone that's HIPAA compliance. Your doctor probably is the shortest path.

Maybe Color Health? They’re clinical and HIPAA compliant but you’ll need to read their policies for the details.

https://www.color.com/genomics

I think that as long as you can provide physical address where you are able to receive mail under pseudonym, you can use nay service. The main point with these DNS testing services is to prevent them form linking your DNA with your identity. You could maybe even use your company's address or a friend or a family member. It should not matter much. Or try renting a Post Office Box. Or even using one of the mail forwarding services as they are usually able to forward your mail based on id on the recipient without then name of the recipient mattering at all.

Why not start with your threat model? What are you actually worried about, then let us look into the options.