Consumers are now paying to hand over their genetic code — their most sensitive individual identifier — to Ancestry LLC and other DNA testing companies, that could monetize it far into the future. But a three-month review by McClatchy, including visits to Ancestry’s headquarters and a main testing lab, reveals a pattern of breached promises to customers, security concerns and inflated marketing pledges that could give consumers some pause.
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Author: Doug Isenberg