The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties, argues that law enforcement use of ...

In 2018, detectives uploaded DNA evidence from the crime scenes to GEDmatch, a public genealogy database. This innovative approach led them to distant relatives of the unknown suspect. Through ...

Genetic testing became popular in the 2000s, as companies like GEDMatch and 23andMe, which started in 2006, began selling at-home testing kits where people could send their DNA, usually saliva ...