23andMe's bankruptcy isn't just a finance issue — it's a potential privacy crisis

By definition, there's nothing more personal than someone's unique genetic code. So when California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned residents last week that the looming bankruptcy of genetic testing and analysis company 23andMe could put the biological data of some 14 million users at risk, his consumer rights alert struck a particularly sensitive nerve. Here, it seems, is the nightmare scenario about which many privacy experts had long warned.

Given California's "robust privacy laws,"...