{"id":61273,"date":"2025-06-13T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61273"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:38:57","slug":"lat-states-sue-to-block-the-sale-of-genetic-data-collected-by-dna-testing-company-23andme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61273","title":{"rendered":"LAT: States sue to block the sale of genetic data collected by DNA testing company 23andMe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LAT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2025-06-11\/23andme-bankruptcy-follow\">States sue to block the sale of genetic data collected by DNA testing company 23andMe<\/a> by Caroline Petrow-Cohen (\u201cDozens of states have filed a joint lawsuit against the bankrupt DNA-testing company 23andMe to block the company\u2019s sale of its customers\u2019 genetic data without explicit consent. The suit, filed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Missouri, comes months after 23andMe began a court-supervised sale process of its assets. The South San Francisco-based venture was once valued at $6 billion and has collected DNA samples from more than 15 million customers.\u201d) [My fear is that CODIS will buy it.  Apparently, the government hasn&#8217;t thought of it yet.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAT: States sue to block the sale of genetic data collected by DNA testing company 23andMe by Caroline Petrow-Cohen (\u201cDozens of states have filed a joint lawsuit against the bankrupt DNA-testing company 23andMe to block the company\u2019s sale of its &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61273\">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-61273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61274,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61273\/revisions\/61274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}