GEDmatch privacy

[Kit]

Earlier in the year there was an uproar as GEDmatch released DNA information about a person. This led GEDmatch to have an opt out policy so your DNA could not be used for crime enforcement.

However, law enforcement simply asked a judge for a warrant for ALL DNA on GEDmatch, which was granted, and GEDmatch handed it over within 24 hours without a fight.

The Detective involved in the case is hoping to find a way to access ancestry and 23andme too.

Interestingly the access did not solve the case but the detective is not looking to access other databases.

So DNA information is not as private as we would like to believe.