Genetic sharing site openSNP to shut down, citing concerns of data privacy and ‘rise in authoritarian governments’

OpenSNP, a wide open source deposit for user-loaded genetic data, closed all the information on the end of April, confirmed the co-founder Bashtian Greshake Tzovaras.

In Writing a blogOpenSNP’s Greshake Tzovaras has decided to close the area due to the confidentiality of the information 23AndMe After financial collapse and an increase in authoritarian governments in the world.

Founded by GRESHAKE Tzovaras in 2011 with the Philippe Bayer and Helge Rausch, OpenPNP, open and public depot for customers of commercial genetic test sets to download the results of tests and find others with similar genetic changes. The site was close to 13,000 users during the parcel announcement, which makes it one of the largest state deposits of genetic information. Since the builder, OpenSNP closed his contributions to academic and scientific research and set more than 7,500 genomes.

OpenSnPin Closing News Wake up 23antme Apply for protection from bankruptcyExtensive banks of the company’s sensitive genetic information of the company will be sold to the highest bidder who cannot comply with 23AndMe’s privacy obligations. General Protocols for California and New York States, Among othersAt the end of this year, then warned 23antme customers to delete data before the approved sale.

Greshake Tzovaras also said that the factor that contributes to the closure of OpenSNP was “increased by far and other authoritarian governments” Development of public data from US government sites After a while President Trump returned to power.

“The calculation of free and open access to individual genetic information in 2025 is very different compared to 14 years ago,” Sunsetting OpenSNP – Sunsetting OpenSnP – Today, it feels like a most responsible movement for this information. “

“It’s always been a balanced action”

When it reaches TechCrunch, Greshake Tzovaras has now not closed OpenSNP to close the OpenSNP and soon.

“Why now ‘me’, why is the future, what is the case for a fascist blow for the fascist coup in the United States,” he said.

“It is impossible to say that people disappear from the streets under the most suspicious excuses,” he said, referring to the latest reports of people living in the United States, Including US citizensthose arrested in immigration raids, someone who is unknown whos.

GRESHAKE Tzovaras, “The wholesale demolition of scientific institutions and science,” said the beginning of the second Trump department since January was a factor in the closing of OpenSNP.

“I don’t think that the sooner the genetic information is a long time to worry about abusing false claims that effectively brings a more dark eugension age.”

Greshake Tzovaras, OpenSNP’s potential use and risks, “always had an act of equilibrium” and said that the existence of the site is “the use of the benefits of risks.”

Gave in a historical example – law enforcement agencies use genealogy information from Genealogy in 2018 Identify a notorious serial killer – Greshake Tzovaras said that OpenSNP appears to be a risk used by law enforcement agencies compared to a smaller or larger ancestor with a special database. (GReshake Tzovaras, despite the openness of the information, OpenSNP confirmed Techcrunch not received any law enforcement for any genetic or user information.)

Greshake Tzovaras, compared to the first Trump leadership, “Abuse of science was better and quantitatively different than we have seen today.”

“The more conversation of Genetic data on the influence of Genetic data in the bankruptcy context of the bankruptcy context, it’s time to take a big talk,” said Greshake Tzovaras Techcrunch.

Greshake Tzovaras can also be a “greatest achievement” in OpenSNP, which has been in a positive reflection in TechCrunch. He was close to about $ 100 in OpenSNP and fled to about $ 100 in the face of commercial beginnings working to make people know their information. Greshake Tzovaras, in that sense, OpenSNP feels like a testament for the power of the open source / culture. “

The site said, “Infosec / Privacy contributed to research and publications in a wide range of info and privacy.

“In this sense, I think ‘democratization’ hope we had at least partially successful,” Greshake Tzovaras said.

Updated to rename OpenSNP name.