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Pioneering DNA testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy after failing to live up to its six billion-dollar promise. What does that mean for the data security of the fifteen million people who handed over their genetic information? And with at least 1 in 5 Britons having taken a commercial DNA test, is the age of genetic anonymity over?
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Guest: Jenny Kleeman, Journalist and Author.
Host: Jane Mulkerrins.
Producer: Olivia Case.
Further reading: I took an ancestry test and it led me to 18 secret siblings
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