Residents and privacy experts worry that this genetic data could be used for purposes beyond the identification project, including in criminal investigations.
But this is far from the first time family members’ genetic material has been used to put names to unidentified remains. Scientists around the world have used DNA to identify missing persons and victims of war, genocide, and natural disasters.
There’s another important distinction between the two approaches, says Kieren Hill, DNA laboratory manager for ICMP: “The difference with what we do is that our data is stored on our own servers.” The organization’s database is private and cannot be accessed by law enforcement. By contrast, GEDmatch is an online piece of software that can be used by anyone, including law enforcement agencies investigating certain violent crimes.
Even for people who have never committed a crime, there are risks to uploading genetic data to a public website. Crime scene DNA samples are not necessarily from perpetrators—they could be left by innocent bystanders. Or a person may be a sufficiently close match to get swept into an investigation, even if they are actually only a relative of the person who was involved.
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