California’s attorney general warned customers who used the 23andMe DNA testing service to remove their data from the company’s website after the company filed for bankruptcy protection.
“Given 23andMe’s reported financial distress, I remind Californians to consider invoking their rights and directing 23andMe to delete their data and destroy any samples of genetic material held by the company,” state Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement on March 21, two days before the company filed for bankruptcy.
Bonta said that in California, people can “request that a company delete their genetic data” and provided steps on how to do so….