This sort of thing was only a matter of time. The clock is also ticking on 23andMe going bankrupt and selling their assets (your PII) to stay afloat.
https://hoodline.com/2024/11/23andme-in-turmoil-stock-plunge...
> This sort of thing was only a matter of time.
In the current single vendor model. An intermediary could accept the samples, blind identities, then provide a "one time" mechanism for retrieving results.
Bill Burr's take was pretty good. "What.. I'm going to spit in a tube and mail it into the internet?"
If is a Russian company is no mystery what happened. Sanctions hit the company, closing it.
For reference, the company is Atlas Biomed. I remember seeing their product show up all the time on Amazon (they have a box design that looks kind of like a multicolored QR code).
Saw this coming years ago. 23andme is next.
tfw all your immediate relatives did the test even after you explicitly told them not to
... and from what I can tell, most people just wanted to know their nationality.
I found out my nationality by looking at the front of my passport.
yep. I found this by simply visiting my local municipalities and easily dug up 3 generations of ancestors and immigration records. It was fun, I learned far more, and cost me $0.
Original source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7wl7rpndjo
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