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Lawmakers consider whether bankruptcy code must explicitly protect genetic data amid 23andMe filing
Summary
Members and witnesses told the House subcommittee that current bankruptcy practice treats data-breach victims as unsecured creditors and that genetic information raises distinct concerns; witnesses urged Congress to clarify how privacy harms and genetic data transfers are handled in bankruptcy sales.
Representative Tom Malinowski and other members raised privacy concerns tied to mass data breaches during the hearing, citing recent consumer genetic-data litigation and a high-profile bankruptcy filing by a consumer genetics company.
Professor Melissa Jacoby explained that victims of data breaches are typically treated as unsecured tort creditors in bankruptcy,…
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