{"id":1122,"date":"2025-04-20T15:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:57:46","slug":"congress-to-investigate-23andmes-handling-of-sensitive-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/congress-to-investigate-23andmes-handling-of-sensitive-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to investigate 23andMe&#8217;s handling of sensitive data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/congress-to-investigate-23andmes-handling-of-sensitive-data_qzgf.640.jpg\">This comes after the biotechnology company filed for bankruptcy last month.<\/p>\n<p>Following biotechnology company <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/tech-industry\/54117\/23andme-files-for-bankruptcy-ceo-steps-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23andMe&#8217;s filing for bankruptcy<\/a>, losing its CEO, and <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/tech\/54131\/23andme-is-for-sale-and-so-are-15-million-peoples-genetic-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trying to find a buyer<\/a> last month, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce launched an investigation into the genetic data company&#8217;s handling of customers&#8217; personal information.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the committee sent a &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/posts\/chairmen-guthrie-bilirakis-and-palmer-launch-investigation-into-23and-me-and-its-handling-of-americans-sensitive-medical-and-genetic-information&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes after the biotechnology company filed for bankruptcy last month. Following biotechnology company 23andMe&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}