Posted on 03/23/2025 3:19:07 PM PDT by Libloather
California’s attorney general has urgently warned customers of 23andMe to purge their genetic data from the company’s databases over uncertainty where it may end up if the firm goes bankrupt.
“Given 23andMe’s reported financial distress, I remind Californians to consider invoking their rights and directing 23andMe to delete their data and destroy any samples of genetic material held by the company,” AG Rob Bonta said in a statement Friday.
The company had been synonymous with at-home genetic testing for more than a decade, providing more than 15 million customers with a wide range of personal health and ancestry data.
Users would provide a saliva sample and mail it back to the company for detailed laboratory analysis at a cost of around $200.
For a time, the company was a runaway success, valued at $6 billion as recently as 2020.
Then it apparently tried to expand too fast into drug research and pharmaceutical partnerships, while a data breach created concerns about users’ information.
The bottom dropped out for the one-time Silicon Valley darling as its share price has cratered, and the firm is now in danger of collapsing.
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is anything really deleted?
Lol. That data’s been sold, stolen, given to various governments multiple times.
“is anything really deleted?”
Works for Hillary.
Too late.
No.
To believe anything else one would have to be a moron
Yep.
It is probably a CIA front company...
I’m so glad we never sent any samples.
Oh shucks! I gave my DNA to (I got a lot of jokes to insert here).
23andme goes bankrupt and fedgov takes it over. It then mandates the collection of ALL dna data for "health reasons"
From here it goes rapidly downhill --- forced breeding for "good" genetic material, forced abortions for "bad".
I'd call it Boys From Brazil 2.0
The California AG wants to make sure that the database is not available to law enforcement so that his friends, relatives and party members are not identified for their crimes using said database.
Never thought this was a good idea
I haven't done 23 and Me, but I did do Ancestry.com years ago. I'd still like to take one of the tests that shows the percentage of Neanderthal DNA. Neanderthals have long been a stigmatized and severely underrepresented group, and need a strong advocacy champion. Plus lucrative government preferences and subsidies. There is probably a significant first mover advantage to whoever gets in early on the scam this righteous social justice crusade.
Will we find out who is really Cartman’s mother?
Half of it already got stolen. The Class action “payout” was the cost of doing business for funneling that data to a buyer. The payoff for the data will be when all the corporate hierarchy take the current entity into bankruptcy and emerge into a new one with a BIG “investment” from the actual data receiver[s]...
Wait, I read on Huffington Post that Trump has already ordered forced breading and Handmaidens outfits. Now they are changing it?
I suspect Private Equity and Leveraged Buyout.
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