MyHeritage is apparently securing their DNA database in response to the FBI using it in the Idaho murder investigation.
There are now more than 53 million tested DNA kits, and growth has been steady for the past 5 years.
23andMe has declared bankruptcy, but now is not the time for genealogists to panic. As a publicly traded company, it will be many months before a resolution is clear. In the meantime, our data has the same protections as before.
A biology lesson wrapped up in a history lesson wrapped up in a nerdy experiment.
Informed consent is critical for the ethical practice of forensic genetic genealogy.
A class action lawsuit alleges that FamilyTreeDNA has been sharing user details with Facebook.
GEDmatch, the much beloved free site for genetic genealogy, is now the target of two class-action lawsuits that could make…
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