No federal privacy law? After the 23andMe hack, it's time to take action

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Nothing will happen.

The problem here was people reusing passwords.

You really aren't going to stop people doing that.

But it could have been easily prevented by forcing multi factor authentication.

I think that should be the minimum required by any company holding personal information.

Blake reply

2fa is a pain in the ass - especially for opsec if they require a mobile number or similar.

the onus is fully on the account holder to set and remember a password (a la private keys - you do use monero right?)

though having your genetic code hacked is pretty 2023 vibes

The state only moves when there is a threat to its power or opportunity for expansion of power.

The compromised con-men in con-gress do not give a damn about your "digital rights"

PS. we have enough "laws"