I was dubious. ‘How safe will our data be? And what if the government or life insurance companies get hold of it?’
‘It’ll be fine,’ said Alice. ‘You worry too much.’
When the results arrived we were fascinated to find our genetic roots, and family connections we had never heard of.
Then over the next few weeks we noticed our on-line activities were getting even more ads than usual.
Hers were for holidays. Mine were for funeral plans.