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   https://nypost.com/2025/03/23/us-news/calif-ag-issues-stark-warning-to-15-   
   million-23andme-users/   
      
   California’s attorney general has urgently warned customers of 23andMe to   
   purge their genetic data from the company’s databases over uncertainty   
   where it may end up if the firm goes bankrupt.   
      
   “Given 23andMe’s reported financial distress, I remind Californians to   
   consider invoking their rights and directing 23andMe to delete their data   
   and destroy any samples of genetic material held by the company,” AG Rob   
   Bonta said in a statement Friday.   
      
   The company had been synonymous with at-home genetic testing for more than   
   a decade, providing more than 15 million customers with a wide range of   
   personal health and ancestry data.   
      
   Users would provide a saliva sample and mail it back to the company for   
   detailed laboratory analysis at a cost of around $200.   
      
   For a time, the company was a runaway success, valued at $6 billion as   
   recently as 2020.   
      
   Then it apparently tried to expand too fast into drug research and   
   pharmaceutical partnerships, while a data breach created concerns about   
   users’ information.   
      
   The bottom dropped out for the one-time Silicon Valley darling as its   
   share price has cratered, and the firm is now in danger of collapsing.   
      
   The company’s share price hovered over $320 in February 2021 but has since   
   slid to less than $2 per share.   
      
   Now thorny questions are being raised about the fate of millions of   
   customers’ most sensitive data if the business goes belly-up. The firm   
   experienced the data breach in 2023, which led to concerns over how well   
   users’ information is safeguarded.   
      
   Under California’s Genetic Information Privacy Act, companies must obtain   
   explicit consent for the collection, use and disclosure of any genetic   
   data. The 2022 law also guarantees consumers the right to access or delete   
   their data at will.   
      
   Bonta said customers can permanently delete their 23andMe data by logging   
   into their account, accessing the “settings” menu and navigating to the   
   data section.   
      
   Clicking “view” will give users access to the “delete data” section, where   
   the option to “permanently delete data” will appear.   
      
   Going through this process will auto-generate an email from the company   
   confirming the request — which users must click to verify before the data   
   will be deleted, Bonta noted in his statement.   
      
   Conversation   
      
   WhatstheEndGame   
   11 hours ago   
      
   You can't delete your data. You can ask the system to delete, it won't but   
   it will tell you it did.  Who knows how many copies there are. How many   
   companies have already bought the data.   
      
   Wm Viets   
   12 hours ago   
      
   Of course, the Bankruptcy Code would allow 23 and Me to modify or cancel   
   the obligations with regard to genetic information and materials.   
      
      
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