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Good luck with that. I filled out the paperwork last year to have mine deleted and never got confirmation. Now that they’re bankrupt, I doubt there’s anyone on staff who could handle it.
In the best case they’ll just flag it as deleted, yet keep the data
Oops, accidentally deleted my DNA instead and now I’m melting.
I have an extra chromosome. Do you want it?
yeah, right.
I requested a download and am waiting for that to be available before deleting it from 23AndMe.
It asks for your birthday to delete/access your data, but I used a fake one when I signed up…
Giving them your genetic data was fine, but your birthday was too much?
I tried to hide my identity as much as possible when I made the account. This included using a pseudo-random email address, fake name, fake address, and (unfortunately) fake birthday, as all of those things could be used as foreign keys to try to match my identity
The real DNA negates a lot of that unfortunately. If any family member also used the service they can use that to triangulate your identity.
You have to keep track of your fake identity next time
