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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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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

I didn't want to do it, but my wife and parents thought I was being over worried and not fun. and then they bought me a kit even knowing I had reservations. Eventually I gave in and did it just to get the kit off the kitchen table and get them to leave me alone.

Welp.

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