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23&Me to settle for a whopping $2.60 per affected person (cybernews.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.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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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

They set the amount, the lawyers get 30%, and the remainder gets split among the affected class.

They can't really set a higher amount because they just plain don't have that much money. You'd never see that payout.

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