• BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    No, they opted to share varying degrees of information with authorized users and close genetic matches, and 23andMe failed to protect them from a large scale takeover of accounts that made public the kind of information the company had promised to keep private to semi-private.

    14,000 accounts compromise by the same entity. That’s absolutely the fault of the platform, not the users.

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      9 months ago

      You’re making a distinction without a difference. Nobody has any fucking clue who their “genetic match” will be nor does anyone have any fucking clue who else is using 23andMe. Sharing that information with other 23andMe users is not meaningfully different than just sharing it with the world at large.