Two lawsuits vs. Tempus raise questions about privacy of germline data in cancer RWE

“Deidentified” ≠ “deidentifiable”

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Two lawsuits filed within days of each other in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois claim that Tempus AI Inc. had violated the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act when it acquired Ambry Genetics and started to integrate its genetics data into its predictive models.

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