Although legal, the time frame and approach seems designed to shield the company from negligence.
I don’t understand how this can be legal. It’s like if I sent out a mass email saying everyone owes me $50 unless they opt out.
What a great comparison. And idea…
It’s not explicitly illegal, and it will dissuade some users from litigation. Even if it does not hold up in court, it will be a road block that requires you hiring a lawyer and going to court in order to get started.
Although the article says it’s probably not going to be upheld by judges, seeing Nazi hackers isn’t great.
- However, because those accounts were linked to the user’s DNA relatives through a feature offered by the company, hackers were able to access the personal data of other customers.
- After the attack, hackers published around 1 million data points about users with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and information about more than 300,000 users with Chinese heritage.
- The company did not publicly reveal the full extent of the breach until around two months after it occurred.
There are several reasons I never used 23andMe, one being that I live in the US and wouldn’t want to risk the data getting leaked to health insurance companies.
Now just hope your family was as smart too…
