The Montana one doesn’t mean that they have to get individual consumers’ permission, but that if the consumers have not waived their right to privacy as part of subscribing to a genealogy database service (and most of these services *do* require that as part of the terms of service) they have to go get a warrant to search the database as a whole. Which is as it should be; police should have to get search warrants to check any private medical or genealogical database instead of just trolling it at any time because they feel like it.
Thanks for this info, and I agree totally with you!:
“The Montana one doesn’t mean that they have to get individual consumers’ permission, but that if the consumers have not waived their right to privacy as part of subscribing to a genealogy database service (and most of these services *do* require that as part of the terms of service) they have to go get a warrant to search the database as a whole. Which is as it should be; police should have to get search warrants to check any private medical or genealogical database instead of just trolling it at any time because they feel like it.”