A Sale of 23andMe’s #Data Would Be Bad for #Privacy. Here’s What Customers Can Do.

Apparently 23andMe is considering selling off its assets - including user DNA data - to a third party.

Taking this opportunity to highlight that transferring of user data between acquired and acquiring companies happens more often than you think.

#privacy #privacymatters #23andme

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale-23andmes-data-would-be-bad-privacy-heres-what-customers-can-do

A Sale of 23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for Privacy. Here’s What Customers Can Do.

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.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}