Despite comparing people explicitly submitting their own DNA in order to search for traits or relations with law enforcement DNA matching, the article misses a

Despite comparing people explicitly submitting their own DNA in order to search for traits or relations with law enforcement DNA matching, the article misses a pretty fundamental issue: What access does law enforcement (or "The Government" agencies in general) to the 23&me and other commercial DNA databases? A quick skim of their ToS suggests the general "and everything necessary to comply with laws/court orders" clause, which sounds to me like you could drive a truck through it. I think privacy issues such as that could be a pretty big stumbling block to mass adoption once price comes down (and utility via detectable traits goes up). Can anyone shed more light on exactly what their T&C permit? Edit: and, if it differs, what you think it should permit? I seem to recall from other situations that entirely speculative 'fishing expeditions' on databases are frowned upon, but the sheer benefit to LE faced with an unknown sample is massive, and bounded only by user adoption and their access.