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This title is inaccurate and misleading. The cops searched a publicly accessible Ancestry.com DNA database. Ancestry.com did then hand over the individual's nam
by berberous 11y ago
This title is inaccurate and misleading. The cops searched a publicly accessible Ancestry.com DNA database. Ancestry.com did then hand over the individual's name after receiving a court order. It also later shuttered the public database as a result of learning that cops were using it in this manner.
There is no allegation in this article that 23andme or Ancestry.com has turned over private DNA information (although it's certainly plausible that this has occurred or one day will occur).
- rch 11y agoThe the originally linked article did reference 23andMe: 23andMe says it’s received a couple of requests from both state law enforcement and the FBI, but that it has “successfully resisted them.”