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  1. Schweden geht neue Wege in der Verbrecherjagd: Die Polizei nutzt als erstes europäisches Land kommerzielle DNA-Datenbanken wie #Ancestry & #GEDmatch 🧬 zur Aufklärung von Morden via Ahnenforschung 🕵️‍♂️🔍. Diese Methode war bisher nur in den USA erprobt. Datenschutz & Ethik bleiben Thema. #DNAForensik #Genalogie #TrueCrime srf.ch/news/international/dna-
    #newz #datenschutz

  2. Schweden geht neue Wege in der Verbrecherjagd: Die Polizei nutzt als erstes europäisches Land kommerzielle DNA-Datenbanken wie #Ancestry & #GEDmatch 🧬 zur Aufklärung von Morden via Ahnenforschung 🕵️‍♂️🔍. Diese Methode war bisher nur in den USA erprobt. Datenschutz & Ethik bleiben Thema. #DNAForensik #Genalogie #TrueCrime srf.ch/news/international/dna-
    #newz #datenschutz

  3. Schweden geht neue Wege in der Verbrecherjagd: Die Polizei nutzt als erstes europäisches Land kommerzielle DNA-Datenbanken wie #Ancestry & #GEDmatch 🧬 zur Aufklärung von Morden via Ahnenforschung 🕵️‍♂️🔍. Diese Methode war bisher nur in den USA erprobt. Datenschutz & Ethik bleiben Thema. #DNAForensik #Genalogie #TrueCrime srf.ch/news/international/dna-
    #newz #datenschutz

  4. Schweden geht neue Wege in der Verbrecherjagd: Die Polizei nutzt als erstes europäisches Land kommerzielle DNA-Datenbanken wie #Ancestry & #GEDmatch 🧬 zur Aufklärung von Morden via Ahnenforschung 🕵️‍♂️🔍. Diese Methode war bisher nur in den USA erprobt. Datenschutz & Ethik bleiben Thema. #DNAForensik #Genalogie #TrueCrime srf.ch/news/international/dna-
    #newz #datenschutz

  5. Schweden geht neue Wege in der Verbrecherjagd: Die Polizei nutzt als erstes europäisches Land kommerzielle DNA-Datenbanken wie & 🧬 zur Aufklärung von Morden via Ahnenforschung 🕵️‍♂️🔍. Diese Methode war bisher nur in den USA erprobt. Datenschutz & Ethik bleiben Thema. srf.ch/news/international/dna-

  6. Mördersuche mittels DNA-Genealogie – neue Gesetze in Schweden und Dänemark

    Vor gut fünf Jahren half der Genealoge Peter Sjölund der schwedischen Polizei, nach 16 Jahren den Doppelmord von Linköping aufzuklären. Er brauchte dafür fünf Wochen, die DNA des gesuchten Täters und die Daten von schwedischen Familienforscherinnen und -forschern. Nach den Erfahrungen mit diesem Pilotfall legen in Schweden und Dänemark jetzt neue Gesetze fest, unter welchen Umständen die Polizei die Forensische DNA-Genealogie, u.a. bei der Mördersuche, anwenden darf – erstmals […]

    compgen.de/2025/06/moerdersuch

  7. To Identify Suspect In #Idaho Killings, #FBI Used Restricted Consumer #DNA Data-Slashdot

    FBI …comparing the DNA profile … with 2 DB’s that law enforcement officials are not supposed to tap: #GEDmatch & #MyHeritage. It was a decision that appears to have violated key parameters of a #DoJ policy that calls for investigators to operate only in DNA DB "that provide explicit notice to their service users & the public that law enforcement may use their service sites"
    #privacy

    yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/2

  8. To Identify Suspect In #Idaho Killings, #FBI Used Restricted Consumer #DNA Data-Slashdot

    FBI …comparing the DNA profile … with 2 DB’s that law enforcement officials are not supposed to tap: #GEDmatch & #MyHeritage. It was a decision that appears to have violated key parameters of a #DoJ policy that calls for investigators to operate only in DNA DB "that provide explicit notice to their service users & the public that law enforcement may use their service sites"
    #privacy

    yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/2

  9. To Identify Suspect In #Idaho Killings, #FBI Used Restricted Consumer #DNA Data-Slashdot

    FBI …comparing the DNA profile … with 2 DB’s that law enforcement officials are not supposed to tap: #GEDmatch & #MyHeritage. It was a decision that appears to have violated key parameters of a #DoJ policy that calls for investigators to operate only in DNA DB "that provide explicit notice to their service users & the public that law enforcement may use their service sites"
    #privacy

    yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/2

  10. To Identify Suspect In #Idaho Killings, #FBI Used Restricted Consumer #DNA Data-Slashdot

    FBI …comparing the DNA profile … with 2 DB’s that law enforcement officials are not supposed to tap: #GEDmatch & #MyHeritage. It was a decision that appears to have violated key parameters of a #DoJ policy that calls for investigators to operate only in DNA DB "that provide explicit notice to their service users & the public that law enforcement may use their service sites"
    #privacy

    yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/2

  11. To Identify Suspect In Killings, Used Restricted Consumer Data-Slashdot

    FBI …comparing the DNA profile … with 2 DB’s that law enforcement officials are not supposed to tap: & . It was a decision that appears to have violated key parameters of a policy that calls for investigators to operate only in DNA DB "that provide explicit notice to their service users & the public that law enforcement may use their service sites"

    yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/2

  12. Sale of #23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for #Privacy. Here’s What its 15 Million Customers Can Do: Existing users can demand 23andMe delete their data or revoke past consent to research.
    Research has shown that a majority of white Americans can already be identified from just 1.3 million users of a similar service, #GEDMatch, due to #genetic likenesses, even though GEDMatch has a much smaller database of genetic profiles. 23andMe has about ten times as many customers.
    eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale #DNA

  13. Sale of #23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for #Privacy. Here’s What its 15 Million Customers Can Do: Existing users can demand 23andMe delete their data or revoke past consent to research.
    Research has shown that a majority of white Americans can already be identified from just 1.3 million users of a similar service, #GEDMatch, due to #genetic likenesses, even though GEDMatch has a much smaller database of genetic profiles. 23andMe has about ten times as many customers.
    eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale #DNA

  14. Sale of ’s Data Would Be Bad for . Here’s What its 15 Million Customers Can Do: Existing users can demand 23andMe delete their data or revoke past consent to research.
    Research has shown that a majority of white Americans can already be identified from just 1.3 million users of a similar service, , due to likenesses, even though GEDMatch has a much smaller database of genetic profiles. 23andMe has about ten times as many customers.
    eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale

  15. Sale of #23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for #Privacy. Here’s What its 15 Million Customers Can Do: Existing users can demand 23andMe delete their data or revoke past consent to research.
    Research has shown that a majority of white Americans can already be identified from just 1.3 million users of a similar service, #GEDMatch, due to #genetic likenesses, even though GEDMatch has a much smaller database of genetic profiles. 23andMe has about ten times as many customers.
    eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale #DNA

  16. Sale of #23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for #Privacy. Here’s What its 15 Million Customers Can Do: Existing users can demand 23andMe delete their data or revoke past consent to research.
    Research has shown that a majority of white Americans can already be identified from just 1.3 million users of a similar service, #GEDMatch, due to #genetic likenesses, even though GEDMatch has a much smaller database of genetic profiles. 23andMe has about ten times as many customers.
    eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale #DNA

  17. It seems that the #GedMatch Gedcom editor can't even handle apostrophes in the name (the string is used as-is within the HTML). That feels like a pretty basic error in a website form!

  18. It seems that the #GedMatch Gedcom editor can't even handle apostrophes in the name (the string is used as-is within the HTML). That feels like a pretty basic error in a website form!

  19. It seems that the #GedMatch Gedcom editor can't even handle apostrophes in the name (the string is used as-is within the HTML). That feels like a pretty basic error in a website form!

  20. It seems that the #GedMatch Gedcom editor can't even handle apostrophes in the name (the string is used as-is within the HTML). That feels like a pretty basic error in a website form!

  21. @MarianBWood Too organized for me. Anyways, close (first) cousins are all in my Contacts. Others I know of are likely in WikiTree.
    I do keep a spreadsheet of all of my #DNACousins that I know of though. Most are not so close, but it's a way of tracking how we're related and their various handles on #23andMe , #GEDmatch etc.

  22. @MarianBWood Too organized for me. Anyways, close (first) cousins are all in my Contacts. Others I know of are likely in WikiTree.
    I do keep a spreadsheet of all of my #DNACousins that I know of though. Most are not so close, but it's a way of tracking how we're related and their various handles on #23andMe , #GEDmatch etc.

  23. @MarianBWood Too organized for me. Anyways, close (first) cousins are all in my Contacts. Others I know of are likely in WikiTree.
    I do keep a spreadsheet of all of my #DNACousins that I know of though. Most are not so close, but it's a way of tracking how we're related and their various handles on #23andMe , #GEDmatch etc.

  24. @MarianBWood Too organized for me. Anyways, close (first) cousins are all in my Contacts. Others I know of are likely in WikiTree.
    I do keep a spreadsheet of all of my #DNACousins that I know of though. Most are not so close, but it's a way of tracking how we're related and their various handles on #23andMe , #GEDmatch etc.

  25. @MarianBWood Too organized for me. Anyways, close (first) cousins are all in my Contacts. Others I know of are likely in WikiTree.
    I do keep a spreadsheet of all of my #DNACousins that I know of though. Most are not so close, but it's a way of tracking how we're related and their various handles on #23andMe , #GEDmatch etc.

  26. #Police Are Getting #DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out
    #Forensic #genetic #genealogists like Cece Moore skirt #GEDmatch #privacy rules by hunting for relatives just as traditional genealogists do but with a twist: They work with #lawenforcement agencies and use commercial databases to search for people who can help identify remains or perpetrators who left DNA at #crimescene. Moore among fields biggest evangelists, boasts of having helped close over 200 cases.
    theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  27. #Police Are Getting #DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out
    #Forensic #genetic #genealogists like Cece Moore skirt #GEDmatch #privacy rules by hunting for relatives just as traditional genealogists do but with a twist: They work with #lawenforcement agencies and use commercial databases to search for people who can help identify remains or perpetrators who left DNA at #crimescene. Moore among fields biggest evangelists, boasts of having helped close over 200 cases.
    theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  28. Are Getting Data From People Who Think They Opted Out
    like Cece Moore skirt rules by hunting for relatives just as traditional genealogists do but with a twist: They work with agencies and use commercial databases to search for people who can help identify remains or perpetrators who left DNA at . Moore among fields biggest evangelists, boasts of having helped close over 200 cases.
    theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  29. #Police Are Getting #DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out
    #Forensic #genetic #genealogists like Cece Moore skirt #GEDmatch #privacy rules by hunting for relatives just as traditional genealogists do but with a twist: They work with #lawenforcement agencies and use commercial databases to search for people who can help identify remains or perpetrators who left DNA at #crimescene. Moore among fields biggest evangelists, boasts of having helped close over 200 cases.
    theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  30. #Police Are Getting #DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out
    #Forensic #genetic #genealogists like Cece Moore skirt #GEDmatch #privacy rules by hunting for relatives just as traditional genealogists do but with a twist: They work with #lawenforcement agencies and use commercial databases to search for people who can help identify remains or perpetrators who left DNA at #crimescene. Moore among fields biggest evangelists, boasts of having helped close over 200 cases.
    theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  31. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  32. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  33. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  34. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  35. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  36. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  37. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  38. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge

  39. The backdoor described here for #GEDMatch and Family Tree #DNA looks like a violation of California's 2022 Genetic Information Privacy Act. theintercept.com/2023/08/18/ge