Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case

Re:Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area ... by mtgx on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:42AM (#16941090)

> seems like the lack of a warrant was a technicality here

Seriously? That's all it takes for you to accept the police doesn't need a warrant? That the warrant is "just a technicality"?

If that were true, we wouldn't need judges to approve warrants. Police has and will abuse their powers without the judge being a filter for their actions. That should never change.

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Re:Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area ... by ninkendo on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:37PM (#16942127)

I think that's a non-charitable way of reading what I said. Although I was certainly unclear.

What I mean is, the interesting issue to me is whether it's OK for law enforcement to send a DNA sample and compel ancestry/genomic sites to respond with any matches, even if they do have a warrant. So I misspoke saying it's a technicality, what I really mean is that the issue is interesting to me even if a warrant were provided.

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