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‘There are no serious safeguards’: can 23andMe be trusted with our DNA?: The at-home genetic testing company is dealing with financial woes and a data breach ...
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‘There are no serious safeguards’: can 23andMe be trusted with our DNA?
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23andMe wants to double down on DNA data mining with its business in a tailspin: The company's CEO assures investors there’s still plenty of money it can make on ...
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23andMe wants to double down on DNA data mining with its business in a ...
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23andMe is low on cash and its stock is worth pennies. The CEO wants another chance
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23andMe is low on cash and its stock is worth pennies. The CEO wants ...
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Ancestry Tests Produced Shocking Results. Should I Tell My Family?: The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the burden that comes with obtaining genealogical ...
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Ancestry Tests Produced Shocking Results. Should I Tell My Family?
Quick Glance: Unexpected Revelations from Ancestry Tests
  • The tests revealed new information about my family and ancestry.

  • My family relationships turned out to be different than I thought.

  • What ethical obligations do I have to a potentially unrelated family?

  • I am faced with the decision of whether to share this information.
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Ancestry Tests Produced Shocking Results. Should I Tell My Family?: The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the burden that comes with obtaining genealogical ...
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Ancestry Tests Produced Shocking Results. Should I Tell My Family?
Quick Glance: Unexpected Revelations from Ancestry Tests
  • The tests uncovered new insights about my family origins and history of relations.

  • It turned out that the biological connection to my family in Norway may not exist.

  • What ethical obligations do I have towards a potentially unrelated family?

  • I'm unsure whether I should disclose this information as my close family disagrees.
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23andme: For founder Anne Wojcicki, it's about everything: The genetic analysis company 23andMe has been in deep crisis since a hacker attack ...
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23andme: For founder Anne Wojcicki, it's about everything
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23andMe Failed to Detect Account Intrusions for Months: Plus: North Korean hackers get into generative AI, a phone surveillance tool that can monitor billions of ...
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23andMe Failed to Detect Account Intrusions for Months
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23andMe sees personal data on 6.9 million customers stolen by hackers: The personal data went up for sale on a popular hacking forum following the breach.
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23andMe sees personal data on 6.9 million customers stolen by hackers
Quick Glance: 23andMe: Massive Data Breach Exposes 6.9 Million Profiles
  • Customers reusing old passwords allowed hackers to access data, according to the genetic testing company.

  • In October, a hacker claimed online to have 23andMe users’ profile information, as disclosed by the company on Friday.

  • The hackers gained entry to millions of 23andMe user data, according to the company.

  • A 23andMe spokeswoman stated on Monday, “We have not learned of any reports of inappropriate use of the data after the leak.”
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23andMe attempts to wipe its hands clean of blame for DNA data breach: A new letter reveals where 23andMe is pointing the finger on who’s to blame for last ...
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23andMe attempts to wipe its hands clean of blame for DNA data breach
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23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits: Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a ...
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23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of ...
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Hate Brussels Sprouts? There Could be a Genetic Reason for That: According to genomics and biotech company 23andMe, the reason you don't like Brussels ...
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Hate Brussels Sprouts? There Could be a Genetic Reason for That
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How a local librarian discovered she was related to a British novelist: Anacortes resident Suzanne Sanderson learned she was related to British mystery novelist ...
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How a local librarian discovered she was related to a British novelist
Quick Glance: Librarian Discovers Relation to British Novelist
  • At her husband’s suggestion, Suzanne Sanderson joined 23andMe to research her family history.

  • She was surprised to find out her great-grandfather’s half niece was married to August Strindberg, the Swedish playwright.

  • Corry located a portrait of Whittaker in the Tate galleries and found a picture of her great-great-grandmother next to a box labeled 'Andy Warhol.'

  • Sanderson and Corry gradually connected their familial ties over email and then offered Zoom tours of their homes to get to know each other.
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23andMe may have suffered yet another breach – your data is in jeopardy
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23andMe may have suffered yet another breach – your data is in jeopardy
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23andMe Will Give GSK Access to Consumer DNA Data: GSK will pay the DNA testing company $20 million for non-exclusive access to genetic data.
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23andMe Will Give GSK Access to Consumer DNA Data
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Choose Something That You Love to Do Now: The founder of this baking empire talks about how baking is what she will do when she retires.
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Choose Something That You Love to Do Now
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Genetic tester 23andMe’s hacked data on Jewish users offered for sale online: A hacker is offering stolen information on millions of 23andMe users ...
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Genetic tester 23andMe’s hacked data on Jewish users offered for sale ...
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Drugmakers plan to pay $20M for DNA from 23andMe customers: GSK Plc is extending a five-year collaboration that’s allowed the drugmaker to mine genetic data as ...
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Drugmakers plan to pay $20M for DNA from 23andMe customers
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How Christina Tosi Built Her Milk Bar Multi-Channel Empire: The sweet-treat entrepreneur offers tips on what drove her success.
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How Christina Tosi Built Her Milk Bar Multi-Channel Empire
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Who hacked our DNA — and why?: The 23andMe heist reminds us of how fragile our privacy is in the digital age — to the extent it exists at all.
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Who hacked our DNA — and why?
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Credential stuffing: Hackers offer 23andMe user data for sale - Golem.de: Attackers claim to have scraped a million pieces of data from the genetic analysis ...
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Credential stuffing: Hackers offer 23andMe user data for sale - Golem.de
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Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA ... Show more

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The 5 best ancestry DNA kits of 2023: Just a quick swab of the mouth, and you can trace your ancestry line back hundreds of years with the best ancestry DNA kits ...
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The 5 best ancestry DNA kits of 2023
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Which DNA test will be more accurate with my African ancestry?: If a DNA test is truly accurate, my dad says it will classify me as heavily African and partly ...
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Which DNA test will be more accurate with my African ancestry?
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I tried five at-home health testing kits and this is what I discovered: From genetic conditions to my type of earwax, I wanted to uncover it all.
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I tried five at-home health testing kits and this is what I discovered
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Which DNA test will be more accurate with my African ancestry?: If a DNA test is truly accurate, my dad says it will classify me as heavily African and partly ...
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Which DNA test will be more accurate with my African ancestry?
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Episode 191 of Kim and Ket Stay Alive - Maybe — YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER: “The Tale of Kim’s Origin Story” — is live! Head to the link to listen now: https://buff.ly/3iaO4JL

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At-Home Health Tests Are Booming Despite Lack of FDA Regulation: COVID flung open the doors to a new world of health tests that ship directly to consumers ...
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At-Home Health Tests Are Booming Despite Lack of FDA Regulation
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'I did a DNA test and found my entire family history is wrong - gran was lying': A woman has shared the shocking discovery she made about her family after ...
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'I did a DNA test and found my entire family history is wrong - gran was ...
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Grandmother's dark past uncovered in family's DNA identity test surprise result: The woman explained how her family had recently completed 23andMe DNA tests ...
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Grandmother's dark past uncovered in family's DNA identity test surprise ...
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One of Google's earliest genetic experiments, 23andMe, paid off — here's what will make or break its future
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One of Google's earliest genetic experiments, 23andMe, paid off — here's ...
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Female founders are crashing the billionaire club: As the women who created Bumble, Spanx, and 23andMe achieve new levels of wealth and success ...
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Female founders are crashing the billionaire club
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Female founders are crashing the billionaire club: As the women who created Bumble, Spanx, and 23andMe achieve new levels of wealth and success ...
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Female founders are crashing the billionaire club
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Richard Branson hints at setting up a Virgin Group SPAC in Amsterdam: Branson has created his own SPACs in the U.S. to help companies like 23andMe go public.
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Richard Branson hints at setting up a Virgin Group SPAC in Amsterdam
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Can you get better at singing if you've never been any good?: Is singing just a talent you're born with - or aren't? Or will paying for singing lessons ...
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Can you get better at singing if you've never been any good?
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Female founders are crashing the billionaire club: As the women who created Bumble, Spanx, and 23andMe achieve new levels of wealth and success ...
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Female founders are crashing the billionaire club
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It was a historic year for female founders: In a world where money equals power, the wealth gap at the top needs to shrink.
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It was a historic year for female founders
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Get to know your genetic self for $99 today: Amazon has a sale on three 23andMe genetic testing kits including Ancestry + Health and the newer Premium bundle.
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Get to know your genetic self for $99 today
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23andMe to buy telehealth firm Lemonaid for $400 mln: Direct-to-consumer DNA testing firm 23andMe Holding Co (ME.O) said on Friday it would buy privately held ...
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23andMe to buy telehealth firm Lemonaid for $400 mln
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Xbox Celebrates 20th Anniversary With A Museum That Might Drag You: Like a parent showing baby pictures to guests, my Xbox museum is kind of embarrassing
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Xbox Celebrates 20th Anniversary With A Museum That Might Drag You
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Mohammed is Palestinian. Why does 23andMe think he’s Egyptian?: Genetic ancestry tests such as 23andMe attempt to place individuals into neatly-defined country ...
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Mohammed is Palestinian. Why does 23andMe think he’s Egyptian?
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‘Wildly political’ environment around vaccines creates room for ‘new leadership’: 23andMe CEO
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‘Wildly political’ environment around vaccines creates room for ‘new ...
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Which DNA test will be more accurate with my African ancestry?: If a DNA test is truly accurate, my dad says it will classify me as heavily African and partly ...
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Which DNA test will be more accurate with my African ancestry?
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Credit Suisse initiates coverage of 23andMe at outperform, says stock can rise 78%
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Credit Suisse initiates coverage of 23andMe at outperform ...
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'Shock, surprise, joy': DNA test connects San Antonio man with father in Norway after decades
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'Shock, surprise, joy': DNA test connects San Antonio man with father in ...
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The size of the average SPAC is rising. Here's why that's important for investors
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The size of the average SPAC is rising. Here's why that's important for ...
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When your biological father is your mother's fertility doctor: DNA tests reveal cases of 'fertility fraud'
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When your biological father is your mother's fertility doctor: DNA tests ...
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23andMe Genetic-Testing Firm Opens at $11.13 After Going Public Via SPAC: The consumer genetic-testing company 23andMe went public by merging with VG Acquisition ...
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23andMe Genetic-Testing Firm Opens at $11.13 After Going Public Via SPAC
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Silicon Valley: Selected contacts should help Anne Wojcicki to go public: The best contacts in the highest circles in Silicon Valley make it easier for genetic ...
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Silicon Valley: Selected contacts should help Anne Wojcicki to go public
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The Sunday Read: ‘Sigrid Johnson Was Black. A DNA Test Said She Wasn’t’: The surge in popularity of services like 23andMe and Ancestry means that more and more ...
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The Sunday Read: ‘Sigrid Johnson Was Black. A DNA Test Said She Wasn’t’
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The enigmatic genetic footprint of Palestine: How it came to pass that Palestinians availing themselves of ancestry kits discover they’re ‘Italian’ or ‘Syrian ...
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The enigmatic genetic footprint of Palestine
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Fears over DNA privacy as 23andMe goes public in deal with Richard Branson: Genetic testing company with 10 million customers’ data has ‘huge cybersecurity ...
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Fears over DNA privacy as 23andMe goes public in deal with Richard Branson
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How Apple, Google, 23andMe, and other companies are fighting COVID-19: These eight tech companies are creating solutions to fight COVID-19, from Apple and ...
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How Apple, Google, 23andMe, and other companies are fighting COVID-19
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Everyone, even mom, wants to get in on SPACs: Despite low levels of understanding, 75% of people who know about the vehicles still said they were at least ...
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Everyone, even mom, wants to get in on SPACs
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23andMe cofounder Anne Wojcicki interview on decision to do a SPAC IPO: 23andMe is going public via a merger with Richard Branson's SPAC. The deal could value ...
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23andMe cofounder Anne Wojcicki interview on decision to do a SPAC IPO
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Richard Branson’s Next Frontier Is Human Genetics as His SPAC Merges With 23andMe
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Richard Branson’s Next Frontier Is Human Genetics as His SPAC Merges With ...
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DNA tester 23andMe to go public at $3.5 billion through Branson-backed SPAC: Consumer DNA-testing company 23andMe plans to merge with VG Acquisition Corp. ...
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DNA tester 23andMe to go public at $3.5 billion through Branson-backed ...
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Why Sir Richard Branson gave 23andMe millions of dollars to go public: 23andMe will be a public company soon thanks to some help from billionaire Virgin founder ...
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Why Sir Richard Branson gave 23andMe millions of dollars to go public
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23andMe cofounder Anne Wojcicki interview on decision to do a SPAC IPO: 23andMe is going public via a merger with Richard Branson's SPAC. The deal could value ...
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23andMe cofounder Anne Wojcicki interview on decision to do a SPAC IPO
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Do a DNA test to 'find out my roots'? That's complicated for a black woman like me | Derecka Purnell
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Do a DNA test to 'find out my roots'? That's complicated for a black woman ...