Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers' DNA
http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-asking-ancestry-com-and-23andme-for-their-customers-dna/
When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first
invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and
medical diagnostic tests, privacy advocates warned about the
creation of giant genetic databases that might one day be used
against participants by law enforcement. DNA, after all, can be
a key to solving crimes. It "has serious information about you
and your family," genetic privacy advocate Jeremy Gruber told me
back in 2010 when such services were just getting popular. Now,
five years later, when 23andMe and Ancestry Both have over a
million customers, those warnings are looking prescient.
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As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
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