In a letter to victims who filed a lawsuit against the company, 23andMe blames its breach on customers for reusing passwords.

Hope this isn’t a repeated submission. Funny how they’re trying to deflect blame after they tried to change the EULA post breach.

  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sell to insurance companies. Genetic predisposition towards certain illnesses? That’s a premium.

    And the insidious thing is, it’s not even just you. Any relative that does a test, boom, they know.

    • jimbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sell to insurance companies. Genetic predisposition towards certain illnesses? That’s a premium.

      If that’s something that those companies were interested in doing, why wouldn’t they just require people applying for coverage to submit a DNA sample? That would be way easier, more reliable, and less shady compared to trying to piece together profiles based on data being sold on the black market.