23andMe, Ancestry Make Legal Changes Amid DNA Privacy Concerns

March 26, 2025, 8:48 PM UTC

Ancestry.com Inc. and 23andMe Holding Co. have reshuffled their in-house legal ranks at a critical time for both DNA testing companies, which have long coped with a myriad of privacy and policy issues.

Gregory Packer, the top lawyer at Ancestry for the past five years, left this month to become chief legal officer at Waystar Holding Corp., a health care payments software maker that went public last year.

23andMe also watched several key legal staffers depart in the months prior to its bankruptcy filing on March 23. The company separately disclosed retainer payments totaling more than $7.6 million to four ...

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