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- Siagiah
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Police using DNA data from DNA ancestry companies to solve crimes
Is it reasonable for law enforcement to have ANY ABILITY to get information from the databases of these companies without the express permission of all of its members or at least the permission of the partial DNA matches that interest them ??
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Details on current policies for the DNA testing companies so you have some idea of where each of them stand:
Customers of 23andMe & Ancestry can opt out of helping law enforcement and their DNA won't be matched up. Both companies oppose it on privacy grounds. However, FamilyTreeDNA routinely shares it with police, particularly in cold cases, but only the DNA files that have significant matches to DNA from crime scenes to identify potential relatives to narrow down suspects. They do NOT allow law enforcement to search themselves or to have any of the information unrelated to their specific DNA samples.
FamilyTreeDNA determined that law enforcement could easily upload the genetic data of victims or suspects into their system and would be able to match it to matching individuals and their relatives, so that's why they allow them to do that part only.
Customers CAN completely remove their DNA profiles from all of the programa and website if they choose to. Once deleted, they can't get it back again because it is completely deleted (according to the program managers) and their samples are discarded after testing anyway. However, I'm sure that any data forensic specialist would be able to find it, but they'd have to KNOW that it was there, know exactly who and what they were looking for, and have a search warrant for the deleted data before they could do that.
It is an understood that ANYTHING you put up on the internet or share with someone else CAN potentially become out of your control and be seen/used by others, but all of the companies have strict controls over the information and make every effort to remove everything when customers request it.
As for fears that insurers might get ahold of the info:
Apparently, NO ONE can access the "raw genetic data" that would be necessary for insurance or any others interested in individual people's health information to use to determine their health status. Police can't access it either.
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