Ancestry.com Sued for ‘Misleading’ Customers About DNA Data

Dick Eastman · April 26, 2019 · DNA, Legal Affairs · No Comments

Genealogy information provider Ancestry.com has a “longstanding practice” of failing to get sufficient informed consent agreements from customers who submit medical and DNA information, a new lawsuit alleges.
Lori Collett sued the Utah-based company’s subsidiaries—Ancestry.com DNA LLC and Ancestry.com Inc.—for allegedly “misleading and deceiving patients in California and across the country about what Ancestry was actually doing with their DNA.”
Bloomberg news has a brief radio report about the lawsuit at http://bit.ly/2VAn7Gt.