Customers urged to consider deleting their data after genetic testing company collapses

Summary

Genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, putting the DNA data of millions of users at risk of being sold.

Privacy advocates have urged consumers to delete their data amid fears it could be sold to data brokers or used for targeted advertising.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta advised customers to consider deleting their profiles after the company’s share price crash heightened concerns.

CEO Anne Wojcicki reportedly rejected three takeover bids before the bankruptcy filing, raising questions about the company’s future and data protection.

  • unexposedhazard
    16·
    4 days ago

    Ah man, imagine the world if governments and companies actually respected basic human rights.

    • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      I always think that my depression comes from having watched too much Star Trek as a kid. I expected better for us by now.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        You should have paid attention to the timeline. In the Star Trek timeline we should expect world war 3 to start next year and go for thirty years. The first warp flight and first contact is after that, and it’s only after that that the “better for us” even starts happening.