California’s attorney general is urging consumers to delete their genetic data from their 23andMe accounts.
I don't know if anyone here has a connection with this business but it's better to follow similar method of deleting your data from their accounts.
When I saw this I was stunned on why the court literally gave them the go ahead, after all their bankruptcy came when they had data breached. There are many potential dangers this may cause to customers as time passed.
Upon request to delete your personal information and DNA test result from the 23andme how sure are you that the data has been deleted from their end? Because some data may still be kept in backups, logs, or other internal systems.
This company have major privacy issue for years, so it's not surprising it finally went bankrupt. I have doubt they would actually delete all customer's data upon request, which is another reason we should not submit any of personal data in first place when it's not necessary/important.
Companies like this especially ones carrying sensitive information like DNA or biometric have heavy responsibilities to carry and some them are not ready yet are probably in a haste to start up. The fact that they went bankrupt means they have lost oversight on what their objective are. Now Just because they give you a "delete" button doesn't mean that all your data has been delete. What if someone walk off with a hard drive? Nobody really knows or the devs from testing days has a backup storage.