{"id":189578,"date":"2025-06-16T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189578\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:58:09","slug":"dna-tester-sequencing-agrees-to-365000-genetic-privacy-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189578\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA Tester Sequencing Agrees to $365,000 Genetic Privacy Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNA-testing company Sequencing LLC would pay $356,500 to settle a class action alleging it shared consumers\u2019 genetic information with third parties in violation of the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act, under a proposed deal filed in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Each member of the class would receive around $300 after deduction from the settlement fund of attorneys\u2019 fees and costs, settlement expenses, and a service award for the class representative, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/MelvinvBigDataArtsLLCDocketNo121cv02194NDIllApr232021CourtDocket\/2?doc_id=X11OFES9AHM92NOE1QGEBLJC1CG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion<\/a> for preliminary approval of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/MelvinvBigDataArtsLLCDocketNo121cv02194NDIllApr232021CourtDocket\/2?doc_id=X11OFES9AHM92NOE1QGEBLJC1CG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settlement<\/a> filed June 13 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bwUnorderedList\">\n<li>The complaint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/MelvinvBigDataArtsLLCDocketNo121cv02194NDIllApr232021CourtDocket\/3?doc_id=X1GTAVFPFBK9K98SMPAVI7JNI6O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged<\/a> that Sequencing shared consumers\u2019 genetic &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DNA-testing company Sequencing LLC would pay $356,500 to settle a class action alleging it shared consumers\u2019 genetic information&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[77730,77732,77729,267,77731,70,61084,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-class-certification","9":"tag-consumer-privacy","10":"tag-genetic-data-privacy","11":"tag-genetics","12":"tag-lead-plaintiff","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-settlements","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114694344256872800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}