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原始链接: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447421

Hacker News上的一篇讨论总结: 一条关于23andMe财务状况不稳定的加州消费者警示,引发了关于数据隐私和企业权力的讨论。一位用户强调了公司财务困境期间私人数据被出售的风险,倾向于Signal和自托管个人数据等注重隐私的替代方案。另一位用户认为,该警示反映了政府对企业的偏袒,批评了数据隐私的“选择退出”制度以及政客未能充分保护公民数据的行为。第三位用户幽默地质疑了将基因物质分享给互联网公司的明智性。发帖人随后回复确认已提交数据删除请求。


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California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers (ca.gov)
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> The California-based company has publicly reported that it is in financial distress and stated in securities filings that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern

This is one reason I use signal over other texting apps -- I don't want my private messages sitting in a database waiting to be sold during a fire sale when the company goes under. Also why I try to privately local host thing, such as security cameras, password manager, home automation, storage, wiki, among others



It's worth pointing out that this is a pro-corporate attack by the US/california government against citizens who have their data in 23andme. This is one more item of clear evidence that it is not the citizens government, but corporations government. This is also why democrats lose. They can't even wrangle corporate power in their own stronghold states.

Politicians have the responsibility of creating legislation to protect citizens, but by abandoning that responsibility and creating an "opt-out" system, those without knowledge or who aren't paying active attention lose, and companies win. The company loses almost nothing if a handful of people opt out, and only a handful of people at most will opt out, so corporations win, the politicians continue to have the support of corporations so they win, and citizens who have things being done with their data, that they absolutely would not consent to, lose.



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