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Covid-19 testing company faces privacy probe over plan to sell swabs carrying customer DNA
A major Covid-19 testing company is under investigation after revelations it plans to sell swabs carrying customer DNA to third parties.
Nov 15, 2021
A large Covid-19 testing company in the UK is being investigated by the country’s privacy watchdog over plans to sell swabs containing customers’ DNA for medical research.
Cignpost Diagnostics, a government-approved testing provider, has delivered up to three million tests at a cost of between £35 ($64) and £120 ($220) each since it was founded in June last year, The Sunday Times reported.
Cignpost, which trades as Express Test, said it intended to analyse the samples to “learn more about human health”, develop drugs and products or to sell information to third parties, according to company documents.
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