[dlewis]

Looks like they do have a 'survival clause' in their privacy statment:

Business Transitions

In the event that 23andMe goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personal information and non-personal information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified in advance via email and prominent notice on our website of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information. We will require an acquiring company or merger agreement to uphold the material terms of this privacy statement, including honoring requests for account deletion.

[jacquesm]

Good for them, that's a step in the right direction, but once your data is then in the hands of party #2 the whole thing starts all over again.

And what about all those companies that have received copies of your genetic data from 23andme in the meantime, and their survival clauses?

I don't think it is possible to do this in a watertight way.

[jacquesm]

edit, long after the edit term expired, how would that survival clause be handled in the case of a bankruptcy?