Maybe a naive question, but Is there a service like 23 and me but that doesn’t collect/keep my genetic information ? @[email protected]
Maybe a naive question, but Is there a service like 23 and me but that doesn’t collect/keep my genetic information ? @[email protected]
You’re right, it was GEDmatch. I hope they got the right guy for the Golden State Killer and not just some dementia-ridden senior citizen that they could pin it on.
And I completely agree that any use should require positive action to authorize. No company should be able to assume consent just because they haven’t been explicitly told “No.”
Especially as FTDNA, for example, have a large array of settings, which, on one hand, is good for privacy but on the other could make it easy to miss.
The genealogical genetic tests only let you find a pool of suspects (in this case no more than two dozen men), they’d then be able to a 100% match through standard means. He admitted guilt and pleaded guilty to a number of other crimes that weren’t explicitly linked to him. The only real concern I have about that is whether the police used the threat of the death penalty to get him to help clear a backlog of cold cases that he wasn’t responsible for.