Hmmmm. Thoughts on implications of 23andMe bankruptcy ruling?

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(Bloomberg) — Bankrupt genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding Co. won permission from a judge to try to sell information about customers’ medical and ancestry-related data, a trove that is considered the most valuable asset in the insolvency case — and has become a source of privacy and safety concerns amid the company’s collapse.

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(Bloomberg) — Bankrupt genetic testing firm 23andMe Holding Co. won permission from a judge to try to sell information about customers’ medical and ancestry-related data, a trove that is considered the most valuable asset in the insolvency case — and has become a source of privacy and safety concerns amid the company’s collapse.

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Ugh.

Glad I never used that service.

Turns out law enforcement and the US government got into people's personal data. Then suddenly afterwards a lot fewer customers wanted to use it.
 
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Ugh.

Glad I never used that service.

Turns out law enforcement and the US government got into people's personal data. Then suddenly afterwards a lot fewer customers wanted to use it.
And with Trump and Musk messing around with everything, god knows what they might do with this kind of info.