cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64477597

Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire “substantially all” of 23andMe’s assets, including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.

  • RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I got my mom to delete her data but who knows if that actually matters. There goes my hopes of being the next golden state killer I guess sadness

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      My mom has been using the other DNA services and wants me to send in my samples because we don’t know much about my dad. I keep having to remind her about this shit because there’s no protections on your data and I’m not giving insurance companies an excuse to deny coverage because they got my genetic records. I sure as shit don’t want my information in a data base of undesirables. There won’t be any protections when fascists enact their final solution in the US.