Some state laws require genetic data to be stored for a period of years, but it's worth requesting 23AndMe deletion now — ...

Wojcicki’s plans to take the company private raise red flags about future data handling practices ... sites due to potential privacy breaches. The bottom line: 23andMe’s uncertain future ...

We have strong customer privacy protections in place. 23andMe does not share customer data with third parties without customers’ consent, and our Research program is opt-in, requiring customers ...

In a statement, a spokesperson for 23andMe tells PEOPLE the company has "strong customer privacy protections in place" and that they "are committed to protecting customer data and are consistently ...

In what now seems like an act of reckless naivety, I bought my brother a 23andMe at-home DNA-test birthday present. Now the ...

A lack of federal regulation and a cluttered mess of state privacy laws ultimately means that if 23andMe faces a sale, the data of millions of Americans is also on the table. The company’s ...

But a potential sale could put your data in the hands of a far less scrupulous company." A spokesperson for 23andMe said that the company has strong customer privacy protections in place ...

This won't solve the issue, but they will (they claim) delete some of your data. Along with speaking to Trujillo, SFGATE dug into 23andMe’s privacy policy, to see what the company’s worried ...

The implications of this sale are significant, raising concerns over data privacy and the potential misuse of sensitive genetic information. 23andMe’s genetic database, built over nearly two ...

Personal data of nearly half of the popular genetic testing company's customers -- 6.9 million people -- was exposed in the data breach.

The company says the data is deleted once a user submits and confirms the request. However, per the privacy statement, 23andMe is legally required to retain certain information. "23andMe and/or ...