I felt weird about it when my dad used this 23andMe service. He was very privacy-conscious, so it was uncharacteristic for him. Now he’s dead. I wonder if there’s still any way to get it deleted.
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Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Well I’m glad I downloaded all my genome data and deleted it a few months ago. It was easy to do, there’s no way excuse not to.
4am@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s cute you think that it’s actually deleted
Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Yes, it’s not worth them fucking around with various pii / gdpr fines. As someone who has worked with pii, we always took deletion requests seriously.
bignate31@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But like… deleting the data would lessen the sale price. Much easier to just delete your account and keep the data in an “anonymous” form. How are you (as the consumer) going to ever know if it’s actually deleted?
Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
No lawyer / accountant is going to sign off on that. It would get flagged as fraud during due diligence and lower the price due to the risks of lawsuits and fines
kromem@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If you read the fine print, they keep your sample data for 2 years after deletion.
So maybe they actually delete your email address, but the DNA data itself is still definitely there.