Investigators employed a new and vastly more powerful familial searching technology to identify the person now charged as the Golden State Killer. This new technology types over 700,000 locations on the human genome for ancestry and medical information, instead of the...
“The Defense Never Rests.”
Month: April 2018
Unregulated Public and Private DNA Databanks Need Legislative Supervision
DNA databanks are proliferating outside of the FBI’s CODIS network of law enforcement databanks and the regulatory framework that presently governs the collection, retention and distribution of DNA samples and records. These shadow DNA databanks primarily exist at the...
Ancestry DNA: Consider Privacy Risks of Familial Searching
People who submit DNA for ancestry testing can unwittingly become genetic informants on their innocent family members when the police search an ancestry DNA databanks for partial matches. Until there are meaningful statutory protections and robust quality assurance...