How to Delete Your 23andMe Data.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good luck with that. I filled out the paperwork last year to have mine deleted and never got confirmation. Now that they’re bankrupt, I doubt there’s anyone on staff who could handle it.

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oops, accidentally deleted my DNA instead and now I’m melting.

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  • 69420@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have an extra chromosome. Do you want it?

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    • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m down

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the best case they’ll just flag it as deleted, yet keep the data

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yeah, right.

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• doylio@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It asks for your birthday to delete/access your data, but I used a fake one when I signed up…

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  • alphapuggle@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Giving them your genetic data was fine, but your birthday was too much?

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    • doylio@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I tried to hide my identity as much as possible when I made the account. This included using a pseudo-random email address, fake name, fake address, and (unfortunately) fake birthday, as all of those things could be used as foreign keys to try to match my identity

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let this be a lesson to write down any fake data you enter into accounts.

    My keepass entries maintain all the fake form into for each account, makes it possible to move forward in instances just like this.

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Try 1/1/1969.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I requested a download and am waiting for that to be available before deleting it from 23AndMe.

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just delete it. You’re losing momentum.

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  • rowdyrockets@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same. That was 2 days ago and nothing yet. I’m skeptical they even have staff to complete these requests. Not sure how long I’m gonna wait before just pulling the trigger. I’m planning to scramble as much data as possible and change my address to somewhere in California but doubtful that will do much.

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only way to win is to not play…

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• KnightontheSun@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll be sure to tell the family members I don’t talk to anymore about this…ug.

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• FoD@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’ve been in the news daily with issues, Financial and otherwise. The sudden rush of people now just slows it all down.

  I am glad I signed up yeas ago though, it was a hopeful time when I assumed technology would help fix us, and give us answers, and help me know things no humans before us could know.

  Half the crap I downloaded from them is meaningless. Family tree is proprietary, and everything else is in formats I don’t know what to do with. Not like I’ll upload it again but it’s just files I have with no purpose now.

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