23andMe bankruptcy: How to delete your data, destroy your genetic samples

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- DNA familial investigating institution 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and volition yet person to merchantability its assets to wage its creditors.

If you are 1 of the implicit 15 cardinal radical who person provided saliva samples to them, unless you instrumentality action, determination is simply a hazard your familial accusation could upwind up elsewhere - and perchance utilized successful ways you ne'er wanted.

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a user alert to customers of 23andMe to punctual Californians of their close to delete their familial information nether the Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) and California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

We've got you covered with a step-by-step usher connected however to delete your familial information and nonstop instructions to destruct your illustration that volition lone instrumentality a mates of minutes:

Delete Genetic Data from 23andMe:

Follow these steps to delete your relationship and idiosyncratic information.

1. Log into your 23andMe relationship connected their website.


2. Go to the "Settings" conception of your profile.


3. Scroll to a conception labeled "23andMe Data" astatine the bottommost of the page.


4. Click "View" adjacent to "23andMe Data"


5. Download your data: If you privation a transcript of your familial information for idiosyncratic storage, take the enactment to download it to your instrumentality earlier proceeding.


6. Scroll to the "Delete Data" section.


7. Click "Permanently Delete Data."


8. Confirm your request: You'll person an email from 23andMe; travel the nexus successful the email to corroborate your deletion request.

Next, here's however to destruct your 23andMe trial samples.

Destroy Your 23andMe Test Sample

If you antecedently opted to person your saliva illustration and DNA stored by 23andMe, but privation to alteration that preference, you tin bash truthful from your relationship settings page, nether "Preferences."

Revoke Permission for Your Genetic Data to beryllium Used for Research

If you antecedently consented to 23andMe and third-party researchers to usage your familial information and illustration for research, you whitethorn retreat consent from the relationship settings page, nether "Research and Product Consents."

Under GIPA, California consumers tin delete their relationship and familial information and person their biologic illustration destroyed. In addition, GIPA permits California consumers to revoke consent that they provided a familial investigating institution to collect, use, and disclose familial information and to store biologic samples aft the archetypal investigating has been completed.

The CCPA besides vests California consumers with the close to delete idiosyncratic information, which includes familial data, from businesses that cod idiosyncratic accusation from the consumer.

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In 2024, 23andMe faced superior fiscal trouble, starring to a important nonaccomplishment successful marketplace value, raising concerns astir the company's information of idiosyncratic data.