Financial Times: Genetic data is worth more than warm spit

“23andMe highlights very valid anxieties and fears people feel when they have given highly sensitive information to a company for a specific purpose,” says Sara Geoghegan, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington DC. “Users deserve more than a pinky promise that their privacy wishes will be respected.” For more than 20 years, Epic has been campaigning for a federal privacy law that would protect users’ rights.

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