Has anyone tried to export their ancestry data? I've notice the PDF summary lists broad regions, but the data in the App shows more details (e.g. specific counties of countries). Anyone know how to export that data? I'll just take some screenshots, but maybe this info is somewhere else in the export.
How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
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Re: How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
#12To be honest, this is more like "requesting the data to be deleted". There's nothing that guarantees that the personal information will be physically wiped out of the hard drives used to store them.
But it creates legal grounds for lawsuits if they don't.
Of course. And I'm not saying that they might do it in malice.
All I'm suggesting is that tapping some pixels on your backlit rectangular glass won't necessarily translate into pulses of electrons that'll eradicate the 0s and 1s representing your data.
I'm sure that corner of the codebase is one of the least visited parts, so bugs may lurk in, or misconfigurations, etc.
Re: How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
#13Why? If it's already out there, it's kind of too late, is it not?
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Re: How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
#15To be honest, this is more like "requesting the data to be deleted". There's nothing that guarantees that the personal information will be physically wiped out of the hard drives used to store them.
But it creates legal grounds for lawsuits if they don't.
Sure, you can sue the hollowed out shell of a bankrupt limited liability corporation that will soon have no assets for a court to sieze for whatever paltry damages a court finds.
Re: How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
#16The data has already been sold off to the real customers (i.e., not you and me) [1]. You can (and should) request a deletion, but the damage has already been done.
[1] https://gizmodo.com/23andme-is-selling-your-data-but-not-how...
Re: How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
#17Better yet, send them a legally binding data deletion request (if you live in a jurisdiction that has strong data protection laws):
Re: How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
#18The distinction isn't super important, but 23andMe doesn't have your whole genome, just some specific locations from it. Roughly 750k base pairs or so.
https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-the-genome-does-23andMe-se...
Re: How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
#19The data has already been sold off to the real customers (i.e., not you and me) [1]. You can (and should) request a deletion, but the damage has already been done. [1] https://gizmodo.com/23andme-is-selling-your-data-but-not-how...
This is false, we've sold data with PII to no one. Or it is misleading: the page you linked to even says, "It is selling de-identified, aggregate data for research, if you give them consent."
Re: How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
#20Has anyone tried to export their ancestry data? I've notice the PDF summary lists broad regions, but the data in the App shows more details (e.g. specific counties of countries). Anyone know how to export that data? I'll just take some screenshots, but maybe this info is somewhere else in the export.
Click on the "Scientific Details" instead of the Summary.