Posted on 11/21/2024 7:44:22 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The genetic ancestry testing company 23andMe recently announced that it is filing for bankruptcy, which could result in the company being sold.
Over the last 20 years, 15 million people have submitted their DNA to the company for testing, but now the company has fallen on hard times, potentially putting your saliva sample with highly sensitive information about your health and genealogy at risk.
The company has lost nearly $6 billion, according to cyber security expert Arun Vishwanath. And because it’s not a health care company, DNA data is not protected by health privacy laws.
23andMe says it has “strong customer privacy protections in place” and it does not share customer data without consent. It also doesn’t share customer data with law enforcement unless it receives a court order.
However, if ownership does change hands, your DNA could be transferred to the new owner and sold elsewhere, possibly to health insurance companies.
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Laws need to be immediately passed.
[NOT that “our” gooberment should get the data, nor that China copies of the data should not be militarily erased.]
Not to worry.
They already sold it to the ChiComs.
Bill Burr rocks.
Why would you send your saliva into the internet? Why don’t you just go to the Illuminati and help them build your robot replacememt?
You didn't know?
My understanding is that the CIA created the DNA sites to make it easy to collect DNA data to make it easy to catch criminals.
That’s why you don’t send spit away to God knows where.
What did you expect?
[And what did you really learn for your $99?]
That's impressive.
“[And what did you really learn for your $99?]”
That your privacy was not worth spit. :)
I do not know which testing company National Geographic used. Any FRiends know?
My family has been doing an international DNA project for over 20 years, but no one in my immediate family has gotten around to participating.
At risk only if you gave them your data in the first place.
OH NO! Say it ain't so!
Your local Quack has likely already taken your data and DUmped it into at least national data bases.
It was at risk the moment you sent it in.
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH.
“They already sold it to the ChiComs.”
most likely the ChiComs simply stole it ... much cheaper that way ...
No worries, most people have had oversized qtips stuffed up their nasal/brain barrier multiple times for samples over the past 5 years anyway.
That’s silly. The government has access to every diagnostic medical test you have ever had. If they want your DNA they already have it and have had it since you were born. They don’t need to start DNA company to get it. I’m also pretty sure that data was long ago sold to the Chinese.
The government has my DNA because my sister submitted a DNA test to these ancestral sites. They don’t have my DNA from any medical treatments because I’ve never had any medical treatments.
Almost everything about social media and DNA is a creation of the intelligence agencies, because you are submitting information voluntarily and through tertiary intelligence gathering, almost all information about every person is accessible to databases.
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