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23andMe raked by Congress on privacy, sale of genetic data https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/06/23andme-raked-by-congress-on-privacy-sale-of-genetic-data #senatehearing #implications #Privacy #23andMe #News

#23andMe Sale Shows Your #Genetic Data Is Worth $17

#Regeneron is a drug company that “intends to acquire 23andMe’s Personal #Genome Service (PGS), Total Health and Research Services business lines, together with its #Biobank and associated assets, for $256 million and for 23andMe to continue all consumer genome services uninterrupted,”
#privacy #dna #genetics

https://www.404media.co/23andme-sale-shows-your-genetic-data-is-worth-17/

Stiftung Warentest hat fünf Anbieter von DNA-Tests zur Ahnenforschung geprüft

#DNAGenealogie. Der Vergleich zeigt Stärken, Schwächen und Datenschutzrisiken bei Herkunftsanalysen und Verwandtschaftsmatching.

https://www.test.de/Ahnenforschung-Per-DNA-Test-die-eigene-Herkunft-ergruenden-5-Portale-im-Vergleich-6210345-0/ (€)

#paywalled #Ahnenforschung #StiftungWarentest #Ancestry #MyHeritage #23andMe #FamilyTreeDNA #LivingDNA #DNA #Ethik #Datenschutz #Strafverfolgung #Völkerwanderung #Ethnie #GEDCOM #Test #Vergleich #DNATest #DSGVO #AGB #Herkunftsanalyse
@ahnenforschung

Nach der #Insolvenz des Genanalyse-Unternehmens #23andMe wollen Kunden ihre Daten löschen. Die Systeme haben Schwierigkeiten, den Ansturm zu bewältigen.
https://www.heise.de/news/23andMe-Kunden-loeschen-ihre-Daten-und-ueberfordern-damit-die-IT-10331052.html
#Datenschutz #Löschung #Betroffenenrechte

#23andMe, the personal genomics company, went public in early 2021 via a merger with a blank check company that valued it at $3.5 billion.

Then its fortunes began to sink.

Fading interest in #DNA kits
– 23andMe’s main product
–  was one driver.

So was news last year that #hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million of its users.

CEO and co-founder #Anne #Wojcicki now reportedly wants to take the 18-year-old company private.

After her own proposal to buy it was rebuffed by its board in July,
she was given time to wangle another deal.

But its independent directors announced Tuesday evening they’ve lost faith that another proposal is coming,
adding that because of Wojcicki’s
“concentrated voting power,”
they’re done,
effective immediately.

The company’s market cap closed the day at $173 million.

Losing its glittering board
– which included Sequoia Capital’s #Roelof #Botha and YouTube CEO #Neal #Mohan, among five others
– will likely drive its shares down further.

One question is whether a shareholder lawsuit might follow.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/23andme-sees-independent-board-directors-quit-en-masse/

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