FamilyTreeDNA has agreed to cooperate with the FBI and allow the intelligence and security service to access its genealogy database. In so doing, a few more violent crimes might get solved, but what ...

There are plenty of reasons to be wary of at-home DNA testing, particularly if you’re concerned about genetic privacy. That’s especially true now that it’s come to light that FamilyTreeDNA, one of the ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

After police used DNA sleuthing techniques to arrest a teenage suspect in Utah accused of assault, a public genealogy website shut off most police access in May, following public outcry. That move by ...

A Florida court has set a potentially troubling precedent by allowing police to access one of these online databases in full, even if users opted out of law enforcement searches. Share on Facebook ...

In March 2017, in the final months of law enforcement’s 40-year hunt for the Golden State Killer, the private genetic testing company FamilyTreeDNA and their parent company, Gene by Gene, were served ...