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Privacy@lemmy.ml • 15 days ago

DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

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Privacy@lemmy.ml • 15 days ago

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There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.

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but when it happens on the dark web it’s so incredibly illegal, but when a company does it…

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