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How to Delete Data From 23andMe, Ancestry, and Other Sites - Consumer Reports (www.consumerreports.org)
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cancerous publication

tl;dr sign into your account and click the appropriate buttons.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Good luck. I sent 23andMe a delete request per their instructions over a year ago and never heard back.

[–] Unchanged3656@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Also you don't. If you are lucky they will at least pretend that they deleted your data.