23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome ro thieves.
Do what it says in the email and email arbitrationoptout@23andme.com that you do not agree with the new terms of service and opt out of arbitration.
If you have an account with them, do this right now.
Here’s an email template for what to write: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94164861
Nobody’s genome was lost. What happened was, users with weak passwords had their accounts compromised, something like less than 2,000 of them, and from those accounts, bad actors were able to access and download family tree data for something like 6.5 million accounts.
I don’t really see how the data lost is actionable in any way except for the spoofed “Hey gramma! It’s me! I’m in jail and I need bail money!” phone calls.
From what I understand - the first action the bad actors are taking are releasing the family trees to “out” anyone with Jewish relatives.
So, just hate crimes to start.
One of the typical arguments is selling ancestry history to insurance companies, effectively handing them health data which could lead to up-pricing or rejections for customers with bad health history.
That’s 23andMe’s end game anyways
But at least the second one isn’t allowed anymore. I’m not sure if the ACA addresses the first point.
That is a whole different can of worms and should be illegal as well
Yes, and if my genome was stolen I’d probably be dead.
There needs to be a c/Literally lol
We can rebuild you. We have the technology.
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What does this even mean?
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I guess what I meant:
I’m not trying to be annoying. I genuinely believe you are trying to say something important but I just don’t understand what you mean.