Genealogy companies could struggle to keep clients’ data from police
Blocking access may drive law enforcement to seek more expansive search warrants
ILLUSION OF PRIVACY GEDMatch, a public genealogy website that police have used to solve murders, has changed its rules on police use. That move could hurt, rather than help, efforts to protect DNA information in databases owned by private companies, experts fear.
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