Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy

3 Houses of the House Energy and Trade Committee said they have examined how 23And the bankruptcy can affect the information of customers.

Representatives Brett Guthrie, Gus Bizakakis and Gary Palmer (All Republicans) sent a letter Genetics Test Company’s Interior CEO Joe Selvage, ask a number of questions about how to manage customer information, if the company is sold.

The letter says that some customers have problems to delete data from the website of 23Andme and are not covered by health insurance and accountability law (HIPAA) such as 23AndMe.

“Given the lack of hipaa protection, it is concerned about the presence of a company or customer information and information transmission risk, which risk the risk of transmission and information transmission,” he concerns.

23AndMe, this Data breach resolved for $ 30 million last year Possibution in chapter 11 In March, co-founder and CEO Anne Wojciki said he resigned to the company to be a special bidder for the company.