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Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data (futurism.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire "substantially all" of 23andMe's assets, including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.

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[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Not mine. Sucks to be y'all I guess

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 hours ago

If anyone in your family used it...

But yea, not mine either.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

How do you know nobody secretly took your dna samples and sent them to 23andme

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And whoever bought it, can (repackage it and) sell it again. And again..

Very fitting that I found this today, gonna read it later :) https://hackaday.io/project/160183-diy-dna-sequencer/details