Along with other companies that provide paid services to customers that comprise the collection and identification of sensitive PII specific to health and genealogy issues, such as Ancestry.com, there is increasing focus on how this information can impact individuals at work, for security reasons, and when attempting to qualify for various types of insurance. 23andMe states: ” The mission of this company is “To help people access, understand and benefit from the human genome.”

• “The statistics [here] reflect the number of law enforcement agency requests for information we’ve received at 23andMe, the percentage of requests that we complied with (in whole or in part), and the number of users or accounts specified in the requests. The statistics are updated on a quarterly basis…”