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23&Me to settle for a whopping $2.60 per affected person (cybernews.com)
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23andMe agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims over a 2023 data breach affecting 6.9 million users.

And that is before the lawyers take most of it. Basically zero consequences for breach of DNA sequences, health reports, ethnicity, race, location, etc. Fascists surely won’t use this for anything horrific.

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[–] 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If a family member has done it, your privacy is already gone.
I had a new sister turn up out of nowhere. I've never had any genetic testing.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    My anonymous sperm donor was found due to his sibling doing a test without knowledge that he had donated. Found out about one of my half-siblings because their child took a test (no clue if the child knew about the parent's genetic background).

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