After this decision was handed down, more than 20,000 Icelanders chose to opt out of the database, virtually wrecking the government's plan to build a fully inclusive nationwide biobank.
此案判決之後，超過兩萬名冰島民眾選擇退出基因資料庫，導致政府原擬建構的國家型基因資料庫幾乎破局。