Suzanne Smalley reports:
Lawmakers across party lines on Tuesday grilled 23andMe executives throughout a hearing probing the privacy implications of the company’s sale as well as what many lawmakers portrayed as the existing vulnerability of the sensitive genetic data the company holds.
Since the company’s March bankruptcy filing, 1.9 million of the company’s 15 million customers have chosen to delete their data, interim CEO Joe Selsavage said at the hearing.
But that information did little to assuage lawmakers’ concerns.
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