23andMe agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims over a 2023 data breach affecting 6.9 million users.
And that is before the lawyers take most of it. Basically zero consequences for breach of DNA sequences, health reports, ethnicity, race, location, etc. Fascists surely won’t use this for anything horrific.
I never understood these settlements. Some asshole lawyers get millions and then the real victims get 2 dollars?
WTF?
How and where is any of this normal? Oh, wait, pet me guess…
They set the amount, the lawyers get 30%, and the remainder gets split among the affected class.
They can’t really set a higher amount because they just plain don’t have that much money. You’d never see that payout.
I’ll accept them doing hard labor for 2,60 an hour
It’s never been a mystery why some people study so hard to become lawyers. Sometimes it apparently pays off.