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Remember to delete your data and destroy any held samples before it's sold and too late.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...

It took me a good 30 minutes to complete the process and a few refreshes later I got the deletion email. Make sure you revoke the consent for storing your samples if you haven't already _before_ this process just in case.

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I've seen this advice floating around the more predictable social sites today.

What assurances do you get that pushing delete actually deletes your data?

None, but it's better than nothing. There are probably some legal consequences to ignoring these requests, especially in California, but given the current legal climate these days it's a shrug emoji.

One has to imagine there are some legal consequences to the debtor burning their only asset as they enter protection…

Maybe it's just getting hug of death right now, but I can't seem to sign into 23andme at all

It's very slow. I managed to get partway through the process.

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