{"id":60627,"date":"2025-03-29T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60627"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:55:16","slug":"latimes-people-should-be-worried-23andme-bankruptcy-could-expose-customers-genetic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60627","title":{"rendered":"LATimes: \u2018People should be worried\u2019: 23andMe bankruptcy could expose customers\u2019 genetic data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LATimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2025-03-29\/23andme-bankruptcy-genetic-testing-privacy-dna\">\u2018People should be worried\u2019: 23andMe bankruptcy could expose customers\u2019 genetic data<\/a> by Caroline Petrow-Cohen and Stacy Perman (\u201cOnce a promising company briefly valued at $6 billion, 23andMe popularized at-home DNA test kits and spawned a cottage industry of ancestry hunters and true crime sleuths. But the company could not build a sustainable business and many of the 15 million people who gave their genetic information to the platform are worried about where their personal data could end up.\u201d And, &#8220;When Christina Snyder Monahan of Irvine first received her genetic results from 23andMe three years ago, she thought there was a mistake. The DNA sample she had sent to the company revealed that she was nearly 50% Persian, though to her knowledge, she didn\u2019t have any Persian relatives. More than a year later, her mother admitted to having an &#8216;encounter&#8217; with another man, who was her actual biological father and not the man who raised her.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t the FBI just buy it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LATimes: \u2018People should be worried\u2019: 23andMe bankruptcy could expose customers\u2019 genetic data by Caroline Petrow-Cohen and Stacy Perman (\u201cOnce a promising company briefly valued at $6 billion, 23andMe popularized at-home DNA test kits and spawned a cottage industry of ancestry &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60629,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60627\/revisions\/60629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}