If 23 and Me goes bankrupt, they will sell all of the biometric data they’ve collected over decades to the highest bidder. Why can’t the US government step in to purchase the company and establish a public trust?

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    13 hours ago

    yeah, in the end they more or less rely on public available information and their userbase to calculate the heritage. If there’s not enough information available, they will not be able to do much.

    23andme had a huge user base in the US, and a big one in europe. But outside of that, their historic data gets very broad