For those curious about what actual data they are recording, they use Infinium Global Screening Array which records about 650-750k SNPs (single-nucleotide-polymorphisms) .
Obviously this data infers heritage, disease risk, relations. It could be used for discrimination, surveillance, potentially poisoning .
Everyone should request their data to be deleted, but this is an engineering forum, and we know what that means in practice. Every company like this has hundreds of copies of the data, and has shared it with dozens of providers.
Like Rev Tevia said, you can't put the feathers back into an opened pillow.
Their array of SNPs in ASCII letters is under 10MB compressed, probably well under that using a specialized SNP format/compression algorithm. Less than a complex Microsoft Office file.
Yeah, I can imagine they have a few dozen copies strewn over various backup media/blob buckets. There probably isn't much effort from what's left of their IT team to track them all down to delete.
It’s not about the size. Every task will have made a copy and a derivative . I doubt the company ever cared to build a dependency tree for removal, certainly not managing copies given to partners.
Now the company is bankrupt this is the last thing on their task list to implement.
Poisoning really? All the risks are pretty sci fi. It’s pretty easy otoh to harm someone without bothering analyzing the snp data if that is your intention.
Obviously this data infers heritage, disease risk, relations. It could be used for discrimination, surveillance, potentially poisoning .
Everyone should request their data to be deleted, but this is an engineering forum, and we know what that means in practice. Every company like this has hundreds of copies of the data, and has shared it with dozens of providers.
Like Rev Tevia said, you can't put the feathers back into an opened pillow.