In a letter to victims who filed a lawsuit against the company, 23andMe blames its breach on customers for reusing passwords.

Hope this isn’t a repeated submission. Funny how they’re trying to deflect blame after they tried to change the EULA post breach.

  • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
    145·
    6 months ago

    Please excuse the rehash from another of my comments:

    How do you people want options on websites to work?

    These people opted into information sharing.

    When I set a setting on a website, device, or service I damn sure want the setting to stick. What else would you want? Force users to set the setting every time they log in? Every day?

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      32·
      6 months ago

      I admit, I’ve not used the site so I don’t know the answers to the questions I would need, in order to properly respond:

      • Were these opt-in or opt-out?
      • Were the risks made clear?
      • Were the options fine tuned enough that you could share some info, but not all?

      From the sounds of it, I doubt enough was done by the company to ensure people were aware of the risks. Because so many people were shocked by what was able to be skimmed.