In a concerted effort to safeguard biometric privacy, a coalition of twenty-seven states, alongside the District of Columbia, has initiated legal proceedings against 23andMe, the personal genomics purveyor, aiming to preempt the potential divestiture of granular genetic datasets absent explicit, informed consent from each stakeholder, a preemptive strike catalyzed by a putative acquisition bid from a biotechnology concern seeking to capitalise on the financially embattled firm's assets; Oregon's Attorney General, Dan Rayfield, in an ex cathedra pronouncement, posited that the mooted data, encompassing biological specimens, DNA profiles, heritable phenotypic traits, and longitudinal medical records, constitutes an inviolable corpus necessitating affirmative, individualised assent prior to any transactional conveyance.