Dunno about that near-blackmail scenario, but 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 last year and the database was sold for $305m.

People are rightly worried about that, but is there any indication that it nullifies any privacy contracts around the data? Is it:

1) We know that legally privacy terms to data are still binding, and those worried about it are freaking out over nothing,

2) We know that those contracts are null and void, and there are no restrictions on what can be done with that data beyond blanket legal protections to such biological data, or

3) It's an open legal question

I don't understand the legal terms of something like this in bankruptcy, if the data are seen as being separated from the contractual obligations that acquired them.

And the government is sleeping and mostly worried about how to implement id verification........