- DNA-testing company 23andMe made headlines last week when it announced that it would share consumers’ anonymized genetic data with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline as part of a $300-million deal.
- Some companies like 23andMe have a history of selling customer DNA data with what they call “third parties.”
- Ancestry, another genetics-testing company, had a partnership with Google’s life-extension spinoff Calico.
- Here are the other for-profit companies with which gene-testing startups have sold your data.