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Estate Sale — editorial illustration
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Estate Sale

More than forty attorneys general settled in July with what's left of 23andMe: $150 million in allowed claims, $18 million paid, about $2.60 a genome. Add the consumer class action and a bankruptcy court priced the security of a human genome at about $9.40. We have run this estate sale twice before.
05 Oct 2026 5 min read
De-identification Protects Your Name. It Doesn't Protect Your Idea.
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De-identification Protects Your Name. It Doesn't Protect Your Idea.

A mathematician spent a year on a Millennium-class problem inside a coding assistant. Then the company that makes the tool called to say it had solved the bigger one. Nobody has shown his data was used. It wouldn't matter: the rarer your idea, the more the idea is the PII.
10 Sep 2026 7 min read
Three Bridges, Same River
data-sovereignty

Three Bridges, Same River

The Supreme Court just ruled FTC independence unconstitutional, and the EU-US data deal leans on that independence 259 times. Safe Harbor died in 15 years. Privacy Shield died in 4. The third bridge is cracking on its third birthday, and everyone is still pretending the river is mandatory.
13 Jul 2026 4 min read
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