How can they contact thousands of us to do DNA police work.
I belong to ancestry.com. I have about 30K relatives, and many were identified by DNA tests.
Each week from 8-12 new DNA relatives to me are listed each day.
Many if not most are 6-8th cousins via my DNA.
I probably have several thousand closer DNA relatives.
So if a distant or not so distant relative is suspected of murder, showing/saying that Xiden is a Rectum or jay walking?
How are they going to get permission from thousands of us to use our DNA to ferret out the above serious criminals?
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.