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For companies like 23andMe, consumers are as much the product as the DNA test kits. Veronika Oliinyk/iStock via Getty Images Plus

April 2, 2025

23andMe is potentially selling more than just genetic data – the personal survey info it collected is just as much a privacy problem

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, University of Michigan

If you were a 23andMe customer, your genetic and personal information could be used in civil or criminal cases, targeted advertising, medical discrimination and so much more.

Blood is drawn from an unidentified patient during a routine exam Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016 at a Boston area medical clinic. AP Photo/Dwayne Desaulniers

January 26, 2017

The privacy debate over research with your blood and tissue

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, University of Michigan

New regulations for research with human blood and tissue try to balance scientific progress with patient privacy.

Privatized. DNA image via www.shutterstock.com.

September 8, 2016

Why you should worry about the privatization of genetic data

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, University of Michigan

We should heed concerns about how private genetic data banks are used and accessed before we enable a system where the future of public genetic research lies in private hands.

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