{"id":64921,"date":"2026-10-01T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64921"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:21:30","slug":"cns-privacy-class-action-over-genetic-data-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64921","title":{"rendered":"CNS: Privacy class action over genetic data moves forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Courthouse News Service: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/privacy-class-action-over-genetic-data-moves-forward\/\">Privacy class action over genetic data moves forward<\/a> by Edvard Pettersson (&#8220;A federal judge on Wednesday waved portions of a class action by people who say a San Diego-based operator of a genealogical research site allowed third parties, including Meta and law enforcement, access to their DNA profile without their permission. U.S. District Judge James Simmons Jr. partially denied a motion to dismiss the claims by Verogen Inc. and Qiagen NV, a European multinational that acquired GEDmatch.com in 2023. The judge said the plaintiffs can proceed with their claims that pertain to a purported technical loophole in GEDmatch\u2019s PRO platform, which allowed law enforcement users to circumvent the opt-out privacy setting and run comparisons against profiles of users who had specifically restricted such access.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courthouse News Service: Privacy class action over genetic data moves forward by Edvard Pettersson (&#8220;A federal judge on Wednesday waved portions of a class action by people who say a San Diego-based operator of a genealogical research site allowed third &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64921\">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":[57,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64921","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=64921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64922,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64921\/revisions\/64922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}