SAN FRANCISCO
(AP) -- Investigators are broadening their DNA searches beyond
government databases and demanding genetic information from companies
that do ancestry research for their customers.
Two
major companies that research family lineage for fees around $200 say
that over the last two years, they have received law enforcement demands
for individual's genetic information stored in their DNA databases.
Ancestry.com
and competitor 23andme report a total of five requests from law
agencies for the genetic material of six individuals in their growing
databases of hundreds of thousands. Ancestry.com turned over one
person's data for an investigation into the murder and rape of an
18-year-old woman in Idaho Falls, Idaho. 23andme has received four other
court orders but persuaded investigators to withdraw the requests.
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