23andMe agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims over a 2023 data breach affecting 6.9 million users.
And that is before the lawyers take most of it. Basically zero consequences for breach of DNA sequences, health reports, ethnicity, race, location, etc. Fascists surely won’t use this for anything horrific.
There are hospital/clinic genetic consultations you can do as well. 23 and me is specifically non-diagnostic and for ancestry/tracing. Thats why they have all these loopholes around information protection and whatnot. Genetic counselling is much better regulated/must abide by privacy laws and a healthcare professional can help walk you through your predispositions and risks. source: I did a mini-project on this for my med lab program. There is a pretty shocking gap between clinical genetics and direct to consumer DNA testing, I wouldn’t touch the private industry with a 10 foot pole.
Thank You.