23 and Me has gone bankrupt

[apathy]

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339695/how-delete-23andme-data-bankruptcy

The genetic testing company 23andMe, best known for allowing people to trace their ancestry with an at-home kit, has been struggling financially for months.

So when the California biotech firm announced in a statement this week that it had entered the federal bankruptcy process with the goal of finding a buyer, one question was raised for the more than 15 million users of the service: What's going to happen to my data?

What should I do? Should I delete my account?

[Fuu]

Now I'll never know that I come from the ethnicity that I am.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

You need to contact them and request all your dba data be deleted and not transferred, leasex, or sold.

Might need a lawyer idk

[Aluvard]

If you've an account - yes, you should delete it, as well as your data there.

[Vince ✟]

Im curious why anyone would worry about where their dna information is kept. We leave it everywhere we go all day every day anyway, so if someone wanted to be a bad guy with my DNA it wouldnt be that hard to acquire.

I dont know much though. Maybe its really important.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

Not just the account, you need them to destroy all records of your dna so it cant be transferred.

[Sidakte]

delete profile and delete your data, dna is very private data.

[Electric Cupcake]

Messaggio originale di apathy:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339695/how-delete-23andme-data-bankruptcy

The genetic testing company 23andMe, best known for allowing people to trace their ancestry with an at-home kit, has been struggling financially for months.

So when the California biotech firm announced in a statement this week that it had entered the federal bankruptcy process with the goal of finding a buyer, one question was raised for the more than 15 million users of the service: What's going to happen to my data?

What should I do? Should I delete my account?

Yes, you should delete your account, AND call your AG to discuss making sure all your data is deleted.

[the vampire of time and memory]

I'll never get to know what I am

[Vince ✟]

Messaggio originale di Plaid:

Messaggio originale di Praise Jesus:

Im curious why anyone would worry about where their dna information is kept. We leave it everywhere we go all day every day anyway, so if someone wanted to be a bad guy with my DNA it wouldnt be that hard to acquire.

I dont know much though. Maybe its really important.

Just get all the chips put in your brain, drink the kool-aid, get your booster and sit the ♥♥♥♥ down, son.

Haha. The hypothetical conspiracy is always the best argument against something.

[salamander]

that is the website that traces your ancestry trees and such, right? i remember their commercials on tv. that is too bad, it is one of those things that seems quite interesting but is perhaps just not too impactful on peoples lives overall, so i can be seeing why it perhaps is going out of business.

[Subsonic]

Messaggio originale di apathy:

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339695/how-delete-23andme-data-bankruptcy

The genetic testing company 23andMe, best known for allowing people to trace their ancestry with an at-home kit, has been struggling financially for months.

So when the California biotech firm announced in a statement this week that it had entered the federal bankruptcy process with the goal of finding a buyer, one question was raised for the more than 15 million users of the service: What's going to happen to my data?

What should I do? Should I delete my account?

Deleting your account will do nothing, you need to send a data destruction request ( im not sure if the US has this ).

[Sidakte]

Messaggio originale di salamander:

that is the website that traces your ancestry trees and such, right? i remember their commercials on tv. that is too bad, it is one of those things that seems quite interesting but is perhaps just not too impactful on peoples lives overall, so i can be seeing why it perhaps is going out of business.

it could be impactful in the sense that a person could find out more about their ancestry and that could help them in ways both sociological and medical. it could be helpful. but the company went under and even though they state that whomever buys them must abide by the laws they did, it's still dna, it's ultra private data and since the whole board of the company just picked up and left i think it's an individual responsibility to wipe all data from their servers, those who used it don't really know who will buy the company.

[Acetyl]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki?useskin=vector#Personal_life

Wojcicki married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in May 2007.[7] They have a son, born in 2008, and a daughter born in late 2011.[31] They separated in 2013,[32] and divorced in 2015.[33] Brin and Wojcicki jointly run the Brin Wojcicki Foundation.[34] They have donated extensively to the Michael J. Fox Foundation and in 2009, gave $1 million to support the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.[35] She joined The Giving Pledge in 2022, committing to donating most of her wealth.[36] In July 2019, Wojcicki gave birth to her third child, a daughter, through sperm donation.[37][38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek?useskin=vector#In_modern_Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-of-ovadia-yosefs-most-controversial-quotations/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samael?useskin=vector#Talmudic-Midrashic_literature
"The midrash also reveals Samael fathered Cain with Eve."

Then they go "bankrupt" (woops!) and conveniently will transfer their data to "another company". Getting something like that deleted, and being able to verify it was deleted, seems like it would be impossible.

It seems more like the job was done. Through ancestry, 23andme, heel pricks done at birth and blood etc from other medical tests, they got what they wanted.

[salamander]

Messaggio originale di Sidakte:

Messaggio originale di salamander:

that is the website that traces your ancestry trees and such, right? i remember their commercials on tv. that is too bad, it is one of those things that seems quite interesting but is perhaps just not too impactful on peoples lives overall, so i can be seeing why it perhaps is going out of business.

it could be impactful in the sense that a person could find out more about their ancestry and that could help them in ways both sociological and medical. it could be helpful. but the company went under and even though they state that whomever buys them must abide by the laws they did, it's still dna, it's ultra private data and since the whole board of the company just picked up and left i think it's an individual responsibility to wipe all data from their servers, those who used it don't really know who will buy the company.

i see other commercials on tv sometimes for programs like 23andme, that are testing your dna for probabilities of things like cancer and such based on your genetics and family history. perhaps they are just having too much competition now?

[ZZZZZ]

maybe less amerians will now claim that they are german, italian or whatever nonsense companies like this make up