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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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[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I wish I had the forethought then, but I was a teenager/early-adult and wanted to know my ancestry after learning my father is actually my step-father.

Did the test and to be honest, have no clue of its accuracy, my brother is in the same boat and didn’t know his biological father and did the test as well and 23andMe immediately picked us up as brothers.

It’s cool at first but then once you know you’re like, “well that was that” and move on.

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