LainTrainOct 12, 2024
Electronic Frontier Foundation
If you used 23andMe, you’re probably wondering if you should be worried about your data in the event that the company gets sold. Yes, but you have rights.   https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale-23andmes-data-would-be-bad-privacy-heres-what-customers-can-do
A Sale of 23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for Privacy. Here’s What Customers Can Do.

The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million customers. Customers and their relatives are rightly concerned.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Oct 12, 2024 at 4:37pmScheduler
Show threadJohn BreenOct 12, 2024
@eff I've never used their "service", but my mom has, and I'm just as worried that I have no way to prevent them misusing/selling that data in ways that impact me, without my consent.
Show threadNEPŘÁTELSKÉ EMOCE 🇺🇦🇨🇿Oct 12, 2024
@eff i've not used it. i managed to determine i'm 90% homo habilis from my toots alone
Show threadFazal MajidOct 12, 2024
@eff I've exercised my data export rights and asked them to delete my data, I would suggest you do the same. It took them nearly a week to export the raw genome data.