An American startup started a star of genetic engineering, but after a huge data leakage, he was in a spiral. Currently, there is an investigation into Congress, where there is an increasing fear that the most personal and fixed data of millions of Americans may be in its wrong hands.

The start of the 23ndme starting in 2006 (its name indicates 23 chromosome pairs of human genome), mainly due to their DNA test service. Users had to send a single saliva sample to know their genetic precedents, origin, health risks, and find their genetic relatives. This is the information that really interests you.

However, the company had no very applicable action plan, and its expansion plans for medical research and the development of medicines did not generate fixed revenues, but what was more problematic, the hacker group broke the company’s machines and had to add millions of users (some of which are 6.9 million). The stolen information includes the displayed name, the other in the calculations, the percentage of common DNA with DNA relatives, and the relationship that can be predicted with this person. You can also contain self -return information such as geographical location, Christmas, family tree and possibly downloaded images, that is, almost all that users have shared in an “introduction”.

This is not the stealing of simple data, it’s very sensitive information, so it is understood to worry and anger users. It is not a coincidence that the company has suffered from disputes and disputes since then, including the demobilization of workers (joint founder and executive director), litigation and delusional financial evaluation. In March, the company went bankrupt in the Federal Missouri Court and has been looking for a buyer of genetic data since then, which is less than day after day.

The company sent a letter to the company in the American Energy and Commercial Committee, and inquired about how to process American data now. The message indicates that 23andme, according to a modern judge, has the right to sell sensitive health and genetic information to 15 million, which is the assets of the most valuable company. This is why they are writing in the absence of a comprehensive comprehensive private law to express their concern about the integrity of the most sensitive personal data for Americans.

The message will ask a number of questions to 23andme, including changing the privacy statement at any time before selling your personal data. They are also interested in whether the company has a “audit procedure” to determine whether its potential agent has “to enter the protection of historical data security and comply with the laws to protect data, sectoral security or other data.”

With regard to the letter a Gizmodo Contact 23andme and receive the following answer. In order to create a qualified offer, potential customers, among other things, must adopt a consumer privacy policy 23andme and all relevant laws to manage customer data. In other words, the company that the company is currently promised to any business company is transferred. The question is the extent of reassurance of this answer, aware of the leakage of the known data.

In any case, any user can delete his data from the company’s database, although legislators claim that some customers have reported difficulties to delete their accounts and data, and thus ask the company to explain the number of cancels that were conducted.

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