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Maryland Lawmakers Consider Expanding Use of Genetic Genealogy to Solve Cold Cases

By MDBayNews Staff Maryland lawmakers are weighing a proposal that could sharpen one of law enforcement’s most powerful modern investigative tools — the ability to use genetic genealogy to solve violent crimes that have remained unsolved for years. The legislation, Maryland Senate Bill 678, would modify the procedures investigators must follow before using forensic genetic genealogical DNA…

Maryland Lawmakers Consider Expanding Use of Genetic Genealogy to Solve Cold Cases

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23andMe bankruptcy filing sparks privacy fears as DNA data of millions goes up for sale

“Folks have absolutely no say in where their data is going to go,” said Tazin Khan, the CEO of the nonprofit Cyber Collective, which advocat

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https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/01/dna-privacy-privacy-dna

The DNA of privacy and the privacy of DNA

Companies selling genetic testing products tout the benefits of DNA-based insights – learning more about health, lineage, family tree – so t

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Genealogy Site Exposes One Million Profiles to Law Enforcement in Security Breach Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Mailing your spit to an ancestry site and uploading it to a DNA matching database has seemed like a pretty bad idea since 2018 when federal law enforcement officials tracked down the Golden State killer through a discarded tissue and his relatives’ online genetic profiles on GEDMatch.

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Weekly output: wireless service, Gmail phishing, social-media disinformation, DNA tests I spent most of this week in Las Vegas for the Black Hat and first DEF CON security conferences.

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Identity crisis: data misuse an unseen twist in DNA testing

I’ve been fascinated by DNA kits for a while so I did a story on it!

Leading up to Christmas, I know we’re all curious about our ancestry and these home tests have helped millions of people - and even reunited refugee families. But what’s going to happen to our DNA? 

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(PHOTO: A member (L) of the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF) takes a blood sample for DNA testing from a man with a missing relative, who disappeared during his journey through Mexico to reach the U.S., at the town of the Ermita outside Tegucigalpa, Honduras August 11, 2015. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera)

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A trio of topics: Controversy

A trio of topics: Controversy

I’m going to briefly leave three things that popped up on my radar in the last day or so. I’m having a busy, grumpy day, and while I may still do a post on one or the other of these – certainly will, in the case of the organic food report – but today you all get to follow a link if you want, and draw your own conclusions. I haven’t the brain to be witty or anything approaching wise.

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March 9, 2017

I had a chance to speak with Ancestry’s Kendall Hulet at RootsTech 2017. Kendall has been with Ancestry since about 2003 and has risen to the position of senior vice president of product management.

I asked Kendall what keeps him up at nights. “Protecting people’s privacy and the security of their data,” he said. Ancestry is making massive investments in this area. He said it will probably always keep him up. He warned us as well. “Be super careful with your data because it is your DNA and you just need to be thoughtful about it.” Privacy is one reason Kendall gave for the lack of an AncestryDNA chromosome browser.

December 04, 2017

“If people are trying to imitate you based on your Social Security number, imagine the damage they could cause impersonating you on the genetic level,” Pitts said.

Heath, the Ancestry executive, downplayed such fears, saying that genetic material is already widely available to criminals, who don’t have the knowhow to use it.

“You go to your barber shop, that place is full of DNA,” Heath said.

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