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Lead: Genetic Genealogy Database- Questionable Techniques

Article body: There are privacy concerns with the police being able to access personal genetic data that is on genealogy services. Individuals can become criminal informants to their own families or to themselves by participating in genetic genealogy databases. The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) is a database that the FBI uses to hold genetic profiles of all known felons, misdemeanants, and arrestees. Some people have said that individuals who are using genealogy databases have an expectation of privacy in their data that is or may be violated by genetic searches. These different services have warning signs about the potential third party using their information, but most individuals do not read the agreement thoroughly.

References: Guerrini, Christi J., et al. “Should Police Have Access to Genetic Genealogy Databases? Capturing the Golden State Killer and Other Criminals Using a Controversial New Forensic Technique.” PLoS Biology, vol. 16, no. 10, 2018, pp. e2006906–e2006906, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006906.

Lead: Disclosing DNA Databases- DNA Portion

Article body: The FBI asking them to be more open to criticism. Since 1999, in the United States, there have been tens of thousands of statistics in criminal cases that only the FBI has dealt with. The FBI is handling it because their machines can be free from human error because the data is not manually edited, processed, or recorded. The NDIS (the National DNA Index System) was established by the legislation in 1994. The NDIS is a database that contains DNA profiles of convicted felons in the United States. They created this in hopes of the FBI doing research and publishing the research to the science community. But there has been no research about the NDIS system from the FBI. The FBI also does not want to disclose any research to academic scholars.

Reference: Krane, D. E. (2015). Time for DNA Database Disclosure. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 60(6), 1668. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12943

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