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DATE: May 23, 2025 at 05:00PM
SOURCE: HEALTHCARE INFO SECURITYDirect article link at end of text block below.
#ISMG Editors' Panel: #CrowdStrike Legal Storm Signals Bigger Risks; #Privacy Concerns in Planned #23andMe Purchase by #Regeneron https://t.co/wggRXU0iI8
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#23andMe Sale Shows Your #Genetic Data Is Worth $17
23andMe sold genetic data of 15M people for $256M to a #pharmaceutical #Regeneron. 23andMe does not perform full genome sequences. It instead does #DNA #genotyping, which look at parts of #genome that vary from person to person.
Sale to Regeneron means #gene data collected by 23andMe will be used for development of new #drugs, which felt like the most likely and perhaps best-case scenario for the company’s bankruptcy.
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23andMe and its customers’ genetic data bought by a pharmaceutical org https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/05/23andme-and-its-customers-genetic-data-bought-by-a-pharmaceutical-org #geneticdata #Regeneron #Privacy #23andMe #News
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After Bankruptcy, 23andMe Finds a Buyer in Regeneron—But What Happens to Your Data? https://thecyberexpress.com/regeneron-acquire-23andme/ #RegeneronPharmaceuticals #Regeneronacquire23andMe #Mergers&Aquisitions #TheCyberExpressNews #23andmeacquisition #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #BusinessNews #CyberNews #Regeneron #23andme
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🧬 Breaking: Regeneron acquires 23andMe's assets for $256M, including genome and research services—but not Lemonaid Health. Deal awaits court approval amid privacy safeguards.
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#Biotech company #Regeneron to buy bankrupt #23andMe for $256M
Regeneron assured 23andMe's 15 million customers that their data—including #genetic and health information, #genealogy , and other sensitive personal information—would be safe and in good hands. Regeneron aims to use the large trove of genetic data to further its own work using genetics to develop medical advances—something 23andMe tried and failed to do.
#privacy #toshttps://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/biotech-company-regeneron-to-buy-bankrupt-23andme-for-256m/
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#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 #geneticshttps://www.404media.co/23andme-sale-shows-your-genetic-data-is-worth-17/
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🚀 Brace yourselves, folks! #23andMe just hit the "sell" button faster than you can say "privacy concerns," offloading their gene-testing biz to the DNA wizards at #Regeneron. 🤖 Meanwhile, #Bloomberg is busy breaking news and breaking our patience with their endless #CAPTCHA tests. 🧬
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/23andme-sells-gene-testing-business-to-dna-drug-maker-regeneron #geneTesting #privacyConcerns #HackerNews #ngated -
23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron
#HackerNews #23andMe #Regeneron #GeneTesting #DNAHealth #Biotech
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DATE: April 04, 2025 at 02:28PM
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#ISMG Editors: Who Will Shore Up #Trump's Federal #Cyber Cuts? Plus: #23andMe's #Bankruptcy #Privacy Woes https://t.co/ttJoMPgc2f
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Heads up. Get your data out of 23andMe right now -- or try.
(Anyone who put it in there in the first place was a fool, I have to say...)
Let's see if the U.S. Government buys it...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/24/23andme-dna-privacy-delete/
#DNA #genetics #GINA #genes #hereditary #familytree #bankrupt #bankruptcy #privacy #informationprivacy #compromised #dataleak #23andMe #data #fail #news #healthcare
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Well, I'm reading through it now, mere days before the book report's deadline (life has been kicking me while I'm down this past month; just lemme have this one). Keeping in mind that this was published in 2015, and likely worked on in 2013-2014, I'd say, so far (I'm finished with the first two, of eight, chapters), that the authors are... wildly optimistic in their prognostications. Their faith in capitalism is thoroughly baked into -- and yet completely unspoken in -- what I have read so far, and it borders on naïveté. Ethical questions are barely even raised, and there is no investigation made into them at either the textual or subtextual level.
As a former software engineer, their hope in Big Tech -- and particularly companies like Facebook and Google (the authors go so far as to nonchalantly suggest that a "genomic 'Facebook'" might one day exist, without casting any skepticism or aspersion toward that idea at all) -- is particularly misplaced when viewed through the lens of a decade of hindsight into the mess that surveillance capitalism has wrought. #23andMe has been presented as a success story, a particularly tragicomical specimen in light of its recent financial troubles and questions over ownership of the genetic data should it go bankrupt.
And that leads into what I suspect will be my primary gripe with the book: its (suspected) dearth of considerations for the licensing of genomic data and technology, about who gets to benefit from amassing such a corpus of genomic information, and on what terms. I have found myself at multiple instances, just in the first two chapters, already exasperatedly asking the authors: haven't y'all seen or read anything put out by @aral on the questions of data ownership? Is the field of #bioinformatics truly sleepwalking into the exact same quagmires that the #FreeSoftware world contended with, all without ever reading anything put out by @rms, by the @fsf, by the @conservancy, or by the @fsfe? Is our species, in yet another instance, going to prioritize private profit at the expense of public good? Nay, even publicly subsidize a for-profit sector that has no obligations to the public in turn?
If genetics truly is the source code of life, and our existing licenses for such source code are truly so "permissive" (or even non-existent) then our species is in very sorry shape indeed. To avoid a #cyberpunk future, I implore and entreat that we take inspiration from nature's viruses, and adopt viral, copyleft licensing for our collective genetic source code as a species. Genomics must belong to everyone, lest it become yet another tool of oppression. "Free Genomics, Free Society," as it were.
I see the nascent optimism of authors Field and Davies and raise them an equal dose of pessimism, administered one decade later.
#biocode #genomics #genetics #foss #FreeGenomics #CreativeCommons #ODBL #PublicMoneyPublicCode
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23andMe Breach Targeted Jewish and Chinese Customers, Lawsuit Says - The class-action suit said the genetic testing company failed to notify customers whose p... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/business/23andme-hack-data.html #suitsandlitigation(civil) #computersecurity #cyberharassment #genealogy #23andme
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Bespoken Spirits raises $2.6M in seed funding to combine machine learning and accelerated whiskey aging - Bespoken Spirits, a Silicon Valley spirits company that has developed a new data-driven process to a... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/p36Sp7DeAHA/ #impossiblefoods #machinelearning #unitedstates #bloomenergy #california #derekjeter #nespresso #23andme #brewing #whisky #tools #tc