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Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers (oag.ca.gov)
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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Well I'm glad I downloaded all my genome data and deleted it a few months ago. It was easy to do, there's no excuse not to.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s cute you think that it’s actually deleted

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes, it's not worth them fucking around with various pii / gdpr fines. As someone who has worked with pii, we always took deletion requests seriously.

[–] bignate31@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But like... deleting the data would lessen the sale price. Much easier to just delete your account and keep the data in an "anonymous" form. How are you (as the consumer) going to ever know if it's actually deleted?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

No lawyer / accountant is going to sign off on that. It would get flagged as fraud during due diligence and lower the price due to the risks of lawsuits and fines

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

If you read the fine print, they keep your sample data for 2 years after deletion.

So maybe they actually delete your email address, but the DNA data itself is still definitely there.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I felt weird about it when my dad used this 23andMe service. He was very privacy-conscious, so it was uncharacteristic for him. Now he's dead. I wonder if there's still any way to get it deleted.