The Golden State Killer Is Tracked Through a Thicket of DNA, and Experts Shudder
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/health/dna-privacy-golden-state-killer-genealogy.html
The arrest of a suspect has set off alarms among some scientists and ethicists worried that consumer DNA may be widely accessed by law enforcement. Genetic testing services have become enormously popular with people looking for long-lost relatives or clues to hereditary diseases. Most never imagined that one day intimate pieces of their DNA could be mined to assist police detectives in criminal cases. Even as scientific experts applauded this week’s arrest of the Golden State Killer (...)