23andMe, the popular at-home genetic testing company, has helped millions of people uncover their family roots and health risks through DNA analysis. Experts fear as the company faces financial issues they may sell the data.
Read full article: If 23andMe goes bankrupt its 15 million customers and their families may be at risk, experts say
Sandy Zimmer of Houston purchased a kit a few years ago off whim. In the back of her mind, she did think about her family health. Moreover, 23andMe’s privacy policy, in its fine print, gives the company the right to sell data or share it with third parties for research purposes. “People might get turned down for life insurance because the insurer knows more about you than you knew about yourself,” he explains.
“Even though 23andMe generally and their associates generally de-identified or anonymous that data, that doesn’t mean that that amount of information isn’t going to be incredibly useful for insurance companies in making various decisions around how to price point for things, how to how to make their more broad-based decisions,” she explained. “So, even if they’re not being used on an individual discriminatory level, it could be used to discriminate against communities and groups.
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