23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users

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23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users::Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.

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If you're allowing a corporation to have it, you are giving de facto consent for government to collect it with zero regard for your rights whatsoever.

They have the greatest ability to buy it, the greatest ability to steal it, and a fairly unique ability to confiscate it.

Yeah but what about great aunt Marge? Don't you want to know if it was Scotland or Denmark?!?