23andMe is on the brink. What happens to all its DNA data?

NPR ^ | 10/03/2024 | obby Allyn

[Nervous Tick]

>> What is the company’s plan for all the data it has collected since it was founded in 2006?

(cough cough china cough)

[discostu]

Highest bidder. That’s their only asset.

[mykroar]

When signing up for the service, about 80% of 23andMe’s customers have opted in to having their genetic data analyzed for medical research.

Yeah, no.

[dfwgator]

(cough cough CIA cough)

[Nervous Tick]

I’m thankful I am a “pureblood”, and equally thankful that I have never pulled down my genes for 23AndMe or any of the other genetic data scavengers so they could have their way with me.

[desertsolitaire]

Wouldn’t ank white knight rescue buyer or bankruptcy administrator insist on selling the data base to the highest bidder, free of any restrictions? Can a privacy pledge by the current company survive dissolution bankruptcy? Can a judge break that over creditor demands?

[Tench_Coxe]

I remember all the commercials a number of years back. My experience has been that the hard sell is usually a red flag something isn’t kosher.

[ComputerGuy]

That data is much too valuable to be left alone. The only question is which government agencies will be in on the steal.

[Nervous Tick]

(is there a difference? LOL)

[dljordan]

Bill Gates or the Chinese will buy it.

[z3n]

What happens to all its DNA data?

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It’s safe and sound in China... already.

[dfwgator]

Not much these days.

[delchiante]

That’s a company that screamed ‘front’ from the second I heard of them..

[Nervous Tick]

>> Yeah, no.

When did America collectively become so naive and credulous? Breathtaking.

[dynachrome]

A nigerian prince will sell it back to you.

[lee martell]

Drug companies, governmental agencies, both domestic and foreign will continue to bombard 23andMe with offers of money. Eventually, they will weaken, take the money and walk away as ‘Zillionaires’.

[Fido969]

They collected all they needed.

[2CAVTrooper]

china already has the database.

[srmanuel]

I wonder if someone could get all the DNA assets and use them to solve crimes.

Quite a few longtime cold cases have been solved using evidence collected years ago, using modern DNA testing and genealogical information to narrow down the suspects to people in one family

The Golden Gate killer case was solved this way

Sell their services to law enforcement around the country for a reasonable price to solve old cold cases