23andMe bankruptcy draws investigation from House panel over data concerns

The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into the privacy and security risks associated with the bankruptcy of genetic testing company 23andMe and has asked its former CEO to testify at a hearing planned for early May.

The company’s bankruptcy filing “raises significant concerns regarding potential transfers of customers’ and family members’ sensitive personal data to various interested entities,” including China’s government, says committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) in a letter to Anne Wojcicki, who initiated 23andMe’s bankruptcy proceedings in March and resigned as chief executive soon afterward.

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