The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties, argues that law enforcement use of ...

Investigators then loaded the woman’s profile into two consumer genealogy databases that work with law enforcement, GEDmatch ...

First, law enforcement could use genetic information in civil or criminal cases. This happened in 2018, when police used the ...

Police found no record of the victim being in North Carolina and are asking the public for help in the homicide case.

The direct-to-consumer DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, putting millions of customers' ...

But she added that if people do delete theirs, they should consider downloading the information and then uploading it to a free database like GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA or DNA Justice. She said law ...

Law enforcement officers have used genetic profiles from home DNA kit companies in the past. In a 2018 case, law enforcement used a combination of genetic profiles from GEDmatch along with ...

Genetic testing became popular in the 2000s, as companies like GEDMatch and 23andMe, which started in 2006, began selling at-home testing kits where people could send their DNA, usually saliva ...