Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire “substantially all” of 23andMe’s assets, including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.

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    4 days ago

    And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don’t give your data to companies: their executives and shareholders care more about their bottom line than your privacy.

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      Exactly, and you cannot hope to see any meaningful regulation out of the current government.

      The company will just buy The Secret Service/Trump’s Presidential Library a fleet of Rolls Royce and he’ll intimidate congress into silence.