Here’s How A Home DNA-Testing Firm Will Let Users Block FBI Access To Their Data
One of the biggest home DNA-testing companies seems to have bowed to a backlash over its decision to allow the FBI access to its database, by announcing a new way for customers to stop law-enforcement agencies accessing their data. Law-enforcement agencies will now have to register under a special process to access the company’s matching combination of genetic data from home DNA-testing kits and family tree databases has allowed individuals to find relatives by matching DNA, but has also opened a new way for police to solve crimes. The changes to the company’s terms of service will see EU citizens automatically opted out of matching with law-enforcement agencies’ DNA samples, but US citizens will need to actively opt out.
Source: www.newscientist.com