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by Analemma_ 3361 days ago
Those statements don't seem to say anything about the possibility of your data being acquired by God-knows-who in the event 23andme goes bankrupt.
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After the Cloudera incident, I asked them to destroy my genetic sample and data. 23andMe's certification seemed clear that my data were no longer accessible by anyone.
> unless the laboratory's legal and regulatory requirements require it to maintain physical samples.

I could be wrong but in a lot of cases in the US, labs are required to hold data for at least 2 years

What was the Cloudera incident? I couldn't find anything from Googling around.