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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 01:37:06 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

If you used 23andMe, you’re probably wondering if you should be worried about your data in the event that the company gets sold. Yes, but you have rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale-23andmes-data-would-be-bad-privacy-heres-what-customers-can-do
In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.social permalink
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1. A Sale of 23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for Privacy. Here’s What Customers Can Do.
  
  from Mario Trujillo and Jason Kelley
  
  The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million customers. Customers and their relatives are rightly concerned. Research has shown that a majority of...
- John Breen (jab01701mid@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 01:42:05 JST John Breen
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  @eff I've never used their "service", but my mom has, and I'm just as worried that I have no way to prevent them misusing/selling that data in ways that impact me, without my consent.
  
  In conversation about a month ago permalink

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