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When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance
San Francisco - Two social justice organizations—the Center for Genetics and Society and the Equal Justice Society—and an individual plaintiff, Pete Shanks, have filed suit against the state of California for its collection and retention of genetic profiles from people arrested but never convicted...
If you're an American of European descent, your stupid cousins have probably put you in vast commercial genomic databases
DNA ancestry tests are bullshit
More than a thousand variations in DNA were involved in how long people stayed in school, but the effect of each gene was weak, and the data did not predict educational attainment for individuals.
Minister Grapperhaus van Justitie en Veiligheid treft voorbereidingen om mogelijk eerder DNA-materiaal af te laten nemen bij een verdachte zonder vaste woon- of verblijfplaats. In beginsel wordt nu volgens de huidige wetgeving celmateriaal afgenomen zodra iemand is veroordeeld voor een misdrijf waarvoor voorlopige hechtenis mogelijk is. Het blijkt vooral lastig om celmateriaal af te nemen van veroordeelden zonder een bekend adres. Daarom bekijkt minister Grapperhaus of de afname van celmateriaal bij deze groep naar voren kan worden gehaald; naar het moment dat ze als verdachten in verzekering worden gesteld.
Police arrested a D.J. in Pennsylvania and a nurse in Washington State this week, the latest examples of the use of an open-source ancestry site since the break in the Golden State killer case.
A version of this article first appeared in the Daily Journal on May 22, 2018. When you share your DNA with a private genealogy database, it’s not only potential relatives searching for matches. The Golden State Killer case shows that law enforcement—and others—may be searching your DNA too,...
This piece was originally published by The Washington Post.
In the end, it wasn’t stakeouts or fingerprints or cell phone records that got him. It was a genealogy website.
We leave traces of our genetic material everywhere, even on things we’ve never touched. That got Lukis Anderson charged with a brutal crime he didn’t commit.
You can hijack a gene sequencer by hiding malware in a DNA sample
The forensic technique is becoming ever more common—and ever less reliable.