US Trustee Office Seeks to Block 23andMe’s Data Privacy Plan in Bankruptcy
A federal bankruptcy court should deny 23andMe’s attempt to appoint a “customer data representative” in its bankruptcy sale and instead allow DOJ to appoint a consumer privacy ombudsman, the Office of the U.S. Trustee said in a filing Thursday (see 2504090048).
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The company’s “non-statutory alternative of a CDR is not an adequate substitute for a CPO or examiner, and appointment of a CDR would serve no purpose except to undermine the Bankruptcy Code’s comprehensive scheme for the protection of privacy interests through an independent CPO or examiner and to allow the Debtors to evade the rigorous and required scrutiny of privacy issues before they may sell the most personal and private data of millions of customers,” DOJ said in its filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
The U.S. Trustee office is seeking an April 29 hearing on the issue.