Family Tree DNA offers to trade privacy to catch criminals
Allowing the FBI access to your genetic data is now a selling point.
Forensics
Police are using ancestry sites to track down more cold case suspects
Investigators are using GEDMatch, the site used to find the Golden State Killer.
New York City ordered to share code for DNA evidence software
It's an all too rare instance of accountability in law enforcement tech.
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VR model of Auschwitz helps convict Nazi war criminal
Prosecutors used it to refute a guard's excuse that he wasn't aware of the murders.
Police could soon identify you by your hair proteins
They could be more useful than DNA for some forensics.
