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Re:Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their custom... by berberous on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:39PM (#10401866)
This title is inaccurate and misleading. The cops searched a publicly accessible Ancestry.com DNA database. Ancestry.com did then hand over the individual's name after receiving a court order. It also later shuttered the public database as a result of learning that cops were using it in this manner.

There is no allegation in this article that 23andme or Ancestry.com has turned over private DNA information (although it's certainly plausible that this has occurred or one day will occur).

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Re:Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their custom... by rch on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:45PM (#10401909)
The the originally linked article did reference 23andMe:

23andMe says it’s received a couple of requests from both state law enforcement and the FBI, but that it has “successfully resisted them.”

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Re:Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their custom... by lwhalen on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:58PM (#10401968)
Until they get an NSL compelling them to shut their pieholes about any 'requests', successfully resisted or not.
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Re:Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their custom... by rando3826 on Friday October 16, 2015 @07:28PM (#10402637)
Perfectly reasonable to assume they already have gotten NSLs.
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