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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by BurningFrog on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:24PM (#21088124)
"Fishing" in police work is kinda the opposite:

You investigate someone, hoping to find some law they might have broken.

This is trying to find out who committed an already known serious crime. That's just "police work", in my view.

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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by jacquesm on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:29AM (#21089043)
Except of course that possibly the only link between the suspects and the crime is the DNA, they may not have committed anything.

But once such a suspect is lined up the search is over and all that will happen is to look for confirmation rather than exculpation.

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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by BurningFrog on Friday September 27, 2019 @04:20PM (#21095894)
Any suspect can always be innocent.

There is nothing special about DNA evidence that makes it worse or better in that regard.

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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by geggam on Friday September 27, 2019 @10:57AM (#21092683)
You dont have a warrant to find those peoples things.

Get a warrant before searching for each persons DNA, not search each persons DNA then get a warrant

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