There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
True, but there have zero incentive to honor such requests. If anything, they have incentive to ignore them, since it’ll just take time, effort and money that they don’t have with no resulting benefit.
I do wish 18 year old me thought this through a bit more before sending in my sample
You can still download the data and delete it from their servers.
Don’t kid yourself.
I can 100% guarantee it’s more likely to work than not doing anything
True, but there have zero incentive to honor such requests. If anything, they have incentive to ignore them, since it’ll just take time, effort and money that they don’t have with no resulting benefit.
So give up, just don’t do anything!
I know those weren’t your literal words, but that’s the sentiment.
It’s the only thing you can do at this point if you gave them your DNA, and it harms nobody to try.
Listing all the reasons not to bother just seems a bit pointless to me. Especially since they had no real reason to honor the request before.
No, you’re putting words in my mouth.
I’m not telling anyone not to bother; I’m outlining how pitiful the state of things.
Pretty sure 23andMe is based in California, don’t Cali laws legally require them to delete the data when requested?
Bold of you to assume they follow the law and will get in trouble for not.
Everyone on this thread seems to be getting really mad when we point that out.
And what exactly are the repercussions? They go bankrupt, shut down, and now there’s nobody to see any consequences.
They’re a California-based company so under the CCPA they must delete your data upon request.
Or else what? What you gonna do to them after they shut down?
They’re likely going to be sold, not shut down. Whoever buys the company takes on the responsibility.
If they actually shut down then it shouldn’t be an issue since they’d almost certainly erase everything.
Why erase things when you can sell it off for parachute money?
I did already do that but will never know for sure if they actually did delete it despite what any law may say
Same for 34-year-old me. I’m a fucking idiot.
I don’t even know how to sue them; not like it’ll matter anyway if they have no money to pay out. Even if I did know, I can’t afford a lawyer.