DNA sequencing services have questionable ethics. Don’t trust your private information with them
„Using public genealogy sites to crack cold cases had its breakthrough moment in April 2018 when the California policeused GEDmatch to identify a manthey believe is the Golden State Killer. (…) Most users of genealogy services have uploaded their genetic information in order to find relatives, learn about ancestors and get insights into their health —not anticipating that the police might one day search for killers and rapists in their family trees. (…) Without an outcry, Professor Murphy and others said, warrants like the one obtained by Detective Fields could become the new norm, turning all genetic databases into law enforcement databases."