On May 15, 2025, a district court in Illinois denied a motion by defendant Hospital Sisters Health System and Saint Francis (HSHS) to dismiss a class action claim brought against the hospital system under the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA).

GIPA regulates the use, disclosure, and acquisition of genetic information and has adopted the

We have published blog posts before on sharing genetic information and the risk associated with the disclosure of such sensitive information.

Unfortunately, our concerns have been realized. On Monday, October 9, 2023, 23andMe confirmed that its investigation into a data security incident involving customer profile information shared through its DNA Relatives feature “was compiled from