Non-EU vendorPersonal Health & DNAHeadquarters: GB

Living DNA: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Living DNA is a UK DNA-testing company for consumers. It sells ancestry tests, including kits with optional wellbeing reports on nutrition, fitness and allergies. Its analysis covers autosomal, Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA, with ethnic and regional breakdowns that the company says are particularly detailed for the British Isles. Kits are ordered online and the sample is sent by post to a laboratory.

Living DNA Limited is a privately owned company based in Frome, Somerset, in the United Kingdom, which is outside the EU. Its privacy statement, last published in 2018, says it has laboratories in the US and in Europe: samples from the USA are generally processed in the US, and samples from the rest of the world generally in the EU. Databases are held by cloud storage providers whose locations are not named, and family-matching data may be passed outside the EU.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 5, 2026

Headquarters	GB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Personal Health & DNA
Type	Product
Website	livingdna.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Living DNA

The European alternatives to Living DNA come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Living DNA

Living DNA is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Living DNA hosts data in EU, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Living DNA is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Living DNA together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Living DNA?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Living DNA include 24Genetics, 7Mind and Aware. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Living DNA?

Our list of EU alternatives to Living DNA is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Living DNA GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Living DNA is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in EU, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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