Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N Ferguson issued a letter on March 31 addressing the U.S. Trustee overseeing ...

Whoever buys 23andMe should be required to keep customer data private, according to the US Federal Trade Commission. The FTC ...

As you may know, 23andMe collects and holds sensitive, immutable, identifiable personal information about millions of ...

Officials including California Attorney General Rob Bonta had questioned what would happen to the genetic data collected by 23andMe.

The Federal Trade Commission warned Monday it would be closely watching the potential transfer of millions of Americans’ ...

In a March 31, 2025 letter, the Chair of the FTC, Andrew Ferguson, wrote to the Acting U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee and set out the FTC’s expectations ...

The company filed for bankruptcy after financial challenges over the past few years and a massive data breach in 2023.

The chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of 23andMe Holding Co. and its affiliated debtors (collectively, “23andMe”), the company that ...

Opinion: LK Law Firm's Lena Kempe explores how the 23andMe bankruptcy highlights the need for stronger data protection ...

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Any purchaser of 23andMe assets should agree to be bound by the company’s existing privacy policy, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a letter to the US trustee, a government office that ...