Originally Posted by Irishman12
Originally Posted by olivant
FamilyTreeDNA, an early pioneer of the rapidly growing market for consumer genetic testing, confirmed late Thursday that it has granted the Federal Bureau of Investigation access to its vast trove of nearly 2 million genetic profiles. The arrangement was first reported by BuzzFeed News.


I was interested in doing this through Ancestry.com but heard these types of firms were keeping a database of the samples you provide. Once I found that out, I said no thanks. Not that I have anything to hide. But they should not be keeping this without my consent or just in general.


I had the same thought as you.

I watched a documentary on the golden state killer. They had the killer's DNA but it wasn't in the data bank; but a distant relative of his was in the data bank. This led the investigators to narrow the suspects and find the killer. It's amazing what they can now do with DNA.

Find article below:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...den-state-killer-can-home-about-60-white