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

NPR ^ | 10/03/2024 | obby Allyn

[BenLurkin]

Shares of 23andMe are now worth pennies. The company’s valuation has plummeted 99% from its $6 billion peak shortly after the company went public in 2021.

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

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

The company has an agreement with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK, that allows the drugmaker to tap the tech company’s customer data to develop new treatments for disease.

...HIPAA, does not apply to 23andMe since it is a company outside of the health care realm.

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Although DNA data has no federal safeguards, some states, like California and Florida, do give consumers rights over their genetic information.

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23andme says it will not let law enforcement search its database

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Kill said the company does not allow law enforcement to search its database.

The company has, however, received subpoenas to access its genetic information.

According to 23andMe’s transparency report, authorities have sought genetic data on 15 individuals since 2015, but the company has resisted the requests and never produced data for investigators.

“We treat law enforcement inquiries, such as a valid subpoena or court order, with the utmost seriousness. We use all legal measures to resist any and all requests in order to protect our customers’ privacy,”

[captmar-vell]

Recall when Mark Zuckerberg wanted access to all of our private medical records for Facebook, red flag for anyone awake and looking. Meta is a NWO honeypot of user provided data for the ant-Christ globalists to sift through like wheat.

I recall years ago when certain agencies were seeking Ukrainian DNA and even advertising for it.

China, WEF with Klaus and his false prophet Yuval Noah Harari will all have nefarious future experimental gene therapy uses for our information

Never provide this information knowingly or willingly, certainly don’t pay them for the privilege of stealing it from us.

[SunkenCiv]

• 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki 'surprised and disappointed' by board resignations: Read the memo [09/19/2024]
• Turmoil strikes 23andMe as board members resign in dispute with founder [09/19/2024]
• Obsessed with Our DNA: The Rise and Fall of 23andMe [05/23/2024]
• 23ANDME CEO SAYS COMPANY IS DOING FINE DESPITE LOSING 93% OF STOCK VALUE...THAT'S THE SPIRIT! [02/18/2024]
• How hackers could use your DNA as a weapon: Warning over £100 swab ancestry sites after cyber-crooks leaked profiles of 4million 23andMe customers [10/19/2023]
• Literally wanting to erase science [07/09/2023]
• Former WWE star takes DNA test to prove he's not Lauren Boebert's dad [06/04/2023]
• Woman claiming to be missing Madeleine McCann to appear on major US TV show watched by millions [03/27/2023]
• I Took a 23andMe DNA Test -- and Cops Linked Me to an Unsolved Murder [02/02/2023]
• House intelligence committee member warns people not to share health data with sites like 23andMe because it can be used to program new bio-weapons to target them [07/23/2022]
• At 70, a North Texas man used a DNA test to learn who his dad was. Instead, he found a whole family waiting for him [05/17/2022]
• Ohio woman finds son she put up for adoption 33 years ago through 23andMe(yesterday's topic) [08/16/2021]
• Ohio woman finds son she put up for adoption 33 years ago through 23andMe [08/15/2021]
• Man Sends Lizard Saliva to 23andMe for DNA Testing, Exposing Total Fraud of Company's Claims of Human Ancestry [07/24/2021]
• Genetic genealogy leads to arrest in 1972 murder of teen girl [06/05/2021]
• Vanity: 23andMe wants to go public [02/06/2021]
• More than Just a Parable: The Genetic History of the Samaritans [01/27/2021]
• At-home DNA testing company 23andMe lays off staff amid declining sales, privacy concerns [01/24/2020]
• How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe, Ancestry, and Other Sites [02/04/2019]
• Woman uses DNA test, finds sperm donor -- and pays a "devastating" price [01/31/2019]
• Suspect in Brutal Rape of 9-Year-Old Girl and Woman in O.C. During Mid-1990s Arrested Through DNA... [01/11/2019]
• 23andMe shares its DNA library with pharma giant GSK to help create new drugs [07/27/2018]
• 23andMe granted limited approval for breast cancer risk test [03/08/2018]
• Kirsten Gillibrand Received Over $20,000 From A High School In California [12/14/2017]
• DNA Testing Companies Admit Adding Fake African Ancestry To White Profiles To "Screw With Racists" [12/10/2017]
• Police can request your DNA from 23andMe, Ancestry [11/19/2017]
• DNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176 (VIDEO) [09/07/2017]
• 23andMe is recruiting 25,000 people for a study on depression and bipolar disorder [07/31/2017]
• Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers' DNA [10/20/2015]
• Of Course 23andMe's Plan Has Been to Sell Your Genetic Data All Along [01/07/2015]
• Genetic mugshot recreates faces from nothing but DNA [03/21/2014]
• FDA Tells 23andMe to Halt Sales of Genetic Test [11/26/2013]
• Inside 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki's $99 DNA Revolution [11/08/2013]
• Anyone else find the "23andMe" advert creepy? (Vanity) [08/21/2013]
• Blacks discover their DNA roots [02/24/2007]

[Mouton]

Dr mengala is available for consult.

[G Larry]

China will pick it up for cheap.

[Dave Wright]

They were banking on people interested in predicting their future medical needs based on genetic information. They found out that people would rather not know their future. The predictive value of genetic information is not well established except for a select number of conditions like breast and pancreatic cancer.

The concern in the future is whether insurance companies will require this testing as a way to control life insurance liabilities. Paranoia aside, your genetic information has no value to China or anyone else if it isn’t connected to your medical records.

[ifinnegan]

The DNA analysis business model I think has a problem in that it’s a one time thing.

So you run out of customers after a while.

Ancestry has genealogical data bases which people are more likely to pay a yearly fee to access.

[mewzilla]

CIA if we’re lucky.

My bet is we won’t be.

[mewzilla]

FWIW, I wouldn’t assume this was ever about making a profit.

[ifinnegan]

I’m curious what nefariousnpurposes people think is there.

[PIF]

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

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It remains safely in a vault in China run by the PLA for their genetic virus program

[fella]

The Mormons and The Deep State already has that data.

[MayflowerMadam]

What do you think the COVID tests were for, other than harvesting our DNA?

If you can (allegedly) catch Covid by being closer than 6 feet from someone, sticking a foot-long swab up your nose is beyond ridiculous. People never questioned the logic.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Well, they already gave it to the government.

[scrabblehack]

They can’t engineer a virus that has a predilection for attacking hosts with certain genetic markers?

[.cnI redruM]

The corporate version of Maury Povich. “DjaMarquavious, you are NOT the baby’s father!”

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Thank goodness the govt will store all that dna data

[Vaduz]

CHECK

[1Old Pro]

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

I'm sure the FBI already has it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

All that data was long ago sold to China...

[sturmde]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with it’s Family Research Center and it’s Ancestry.com would gladly buy and take all that and merge it into Ancestry.