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23&Me to settle for a whopping $2.60 per affected person (cybernews.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by CatGPT@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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23andMe agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims over a 2023 data breach affecting 6.9 million users.

And that is before the lawyers take most of it. Basically zero consequences for breach of DNA sequences, health reports, ethnicity, race, location, etc. Fascists surely won’t use this for anything horrific.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When the legal system neither delivers justice not makes people whole after being harmed, people start getting ideas. Like taking up plumbing

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Haha! I'm gonna sabotage their sewer li... Oh you meant the other thing. I'm still onboard.

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe I'll start painting houses? Do some carpets too.

https://youtu.be/EK1bRjm3ThE?is=jyBNS2s7LxKCKcUh

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Not Americans. They're kind of down for this every time.