"According to theEast Bay Times, which firstreportedthe connection to GEDmatch late Thursday evening, California investigators caught a huge break in the case when they matched DNA from some of the original crim
How private is your DNA on ancestry websites? East Area Rapist case raises questions-Dale Kasler and Anita Chabria,Sacramento Bee,April 26, 2018 A Serial Killer Was Caught Because Investigators Found His Family’s DNA On A Website– Dan Vergano and Virginia Hughes,BuzzFeed, April 26, 2018 ...
But there are privacy concerns as well. There are not strong privacy laws to keep police from trolling ancestry databases, said Steve Mercer, the chief attorney for the forensic division of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. It's not clear whether peopl...
Led by companies like Ancestry and 23AndMe, direct-to-consumer DNA technology spread as a way to learn about one’s family history by spitting into a tube. More than 1.2 million DNA kits have been uploaded to GEDMatch, a free website, by people who want to better learn about their gene...