Open-source DNA website GEDmatch helped crack Golden State Killer case

Re:Open-source DNA website GEDmatch helped crack Golden Stat... by pessimizer on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:08PM (#16945131)

> If you've given your DNA freely to the government by participating in a violent crime

Ignoring the intentionally bizarre phrasing ("if you've freely stoned yourself to death by committing adultery"), this is unrelated to the actual situation, which forces people arrested for a felony to surrender their DNA.

1) Both not restricted to "violent" crimes and not including all violent crimes, and

2) not requiring a conviction, or charges to be pressed.

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Re:Open-source DNA website GEDmatch helped crack Golden Stat... by tathougies on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:46AM (#16946109)

I'm not sure how you're comparing adultery to rape.

When a man rapes a woman, he typically leaves behind his own DNA in the form of semen. That DNA is the only DNA the government has access to.

Contrary to what everyone here is saying, the government does not have access to the relative's DNA at all.

The phrasing was not intentionally bizarre. If you rape someone, then you consent to have your DNA examined by authorities so that they can catch you and put you in jail.

The irony in having to defend the idea of needing consent from a rapist has apparently escaped Hacker News's hive mind.

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