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- cross-posted to:
- genealogy
Genetic testing company 23andMe (now Chrome Holding Co.) has agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims from a coalition of 43 attorneys general that it failed to protect customers’ genetic data.
Press release: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-secures-18-million-23andme-failing-protect-customers
That’s 3 dollars per customer, no?
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I’d like to do one of these but I don’t trust them. Sure some say they’ll not sell your data but what if they go bankrupt and are bought out? Data breach? Blatant lies?
Who would be interested? Insurance companies for one. I could see genetic conditions not being covered on their dog shit copper that’s turned green plan in the dystopian future.
So sad that this lawsuit was only for US customers. Would have loved to participate. On the other hand, I don’t give a single shit about my genetic data. Been using the .csv file 23andme sent me as junk test data whenever I build any sort of csv parsing functionality lol
probably ended up with AI, and LEO orgs.



