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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - 23andMe...And a Looming Data Disaster

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How did 23andMe go from the peak of the double-helix to a death spiral? And if it goes under, is all of the genetic data it collected at risk? 


Guest: Kristen V. Brown, staff writer covering health for The Atlantic.


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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Patrick Fort, and Cheyna Roth.


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How many times, Kristen, do you think you have taken a DNA test?

1:10.0

I think that I have quit counting.

1:14.0

That's Kristen V Brown, who covers health for the Atlantic.

1:18.0

I've taken 23 knees tests at least three times.

1:30.0

ancestry, I've taken all the weird little startup ones that used to be around, you know, like the one that you fit in a tube and then they printed you a

1:32.8

starve with your DNA on it I don't know if you remember that one from like 2016

1:39.2

2017 era. At the height of the home DNA test era,

1:44.0

she even tested her cat.

1:46.0

One of Kristen's human tests caused some mild chaos.

1:50.0

Kristen's grandfather was Syrian,

1:52.0

but the test concluded that she had Italian ancestry instead.

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