New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by cortesoft on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:28AM (#21088428)

I agree with your conclusion in general, but you add in some very basic secondary checks and you won't get that many false positives... do they live anywhere near the crime? Do they have any motive or opportunity to commit the crime? Were they in the area at the time?

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Re:New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DN... by jacquesm on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:32AM (#21089049)

So now you are fishing with a net with smaller holes. You're going to catch suspects that look bad because you've selected for that but that still may not have anything to do with the crime you are investigating.

God forbid any of them are minorities and the victim a white person, you're 95% on the road to a conviction.

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