Your DNA Outlived The Company Holding It 🧬
23andMe went through bankruptcy, its genetic database was sold, and US states sued over that sale and reached a multistate settlement this summer.
Nobody who spat in a tube signed up for a bankruptcy court deciding who ends up with it, and that is the part worth remembering every time a company asks for something permanent about you.
On $SOL the same rule shows up in a different form, because a Solana program has to be handed a whole input before it can act on it, so any app touching sensitive data starts by receiving it.
Genomic data is the sharpest version of the problem. It cannot be changed, it identifies relatives who never consented, and it gets more valuable to a buyer every year it sits in storage.
Arcium changes what the researcher receives, splitting each record into fragments across a cluster of nodes where no single node holds a readable copy, while the cluster still returns the correct result, a count, a correlation or a match.
That result settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction, so a study is on record even though the records behind it were never assembled.
Confidential computation has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2, and Blackthorn, which extends this to AI models, has not shipped yet.
The lesson of 23andMe is that data outlives the company that collected it, and the fix is not better promises from the next collector, it is not collecting it in the first place.
#AI #Solana
23andMe went through bankruptcy, its genetic database was sold, and US states sued over that sale and reached a multistate settlement this summer.
Nobody who spat in a tube signed up for a bankruptcy court deciding who ends up with it, and that is the part worth remembering every time a company asks for something permanent about you.
On $SOL the same rule shows up in a different form, because a Solana program has to be handed a whole input before it can act on it, so any app touching sensitive data starts by receiving it.
Genomic data is the sharpest version of the problem. It cannot be changed, it identifies relatives who never consented, and it gets more valuable to a buyer every year it sits in storage.
Arcium changes what the researcher receives, splitting each record into fragments across a cluster of nodes where no single node holds a readable copy, while the cluster still returns the correct result, a count, a correlation or a match.
That result settles on Solana as an ordinary public transaction, so a study is on record even though the records behind it were never assembled.
Confidential computation has been live on Mainnet Alpha since February 2, and Blackthorn, which extends this to AI models, has not shipped yet.
The lesson of 23andMe is that data outlives the company that collected it, and the fix is not better promises from the next collector, it is not collecting it in the first place.
#AI #Solana
