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Company Selling Genetic Data On Millions of Americans: "Hand Over DNA, Vial of Spit At a Time&q

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For customers who opted into signing a consent for when they signed up to have their DNA sequenced through the company 23andMe, it would appear that their DNA data belongs to a giant database that is being shared and sold to third party medical and pharmaceutical firms.

As Gizmodo reported that the company that has been featured in Walgreens stores to sequence your DNA for a cheap one time cost of $99 has a lot more at stake:

Today, 23andMe announced what Forbes reports is only the first of ten deals with big biotech companies: Genentech will pay up to $60 million for access to 23andMe's data to study Parkinson's. You think 23andMe was about selling fun DNA spit tests for $99 a pop? Nope, it's been about selling your data all along.

Since 23andMe started in 2006, it's convinced 800,000 customers to hand over their DNA, one vial of spit at a time.


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