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Despite privacy concerns over police use of DNA uploaded to ancestry websites, many people are just excited that their genetic material could get a killer off the streets.
Move over Netflix, here’s whodunnit by headphones.
Data and privacy issues are tangled up in the DNA reports consumers get from big genetic testing companies – and the third-party sites they turn to in order to glean more from their raw DNA.
The arrest of former cop Joseph DeAngelo in the Golden State Killer case raises questions about the common occupations of killers and psychopaths. Canada’s Russell Williams was a former military officer.
A public genealogy data base was used to track down the so-called “Golden State Killer,” raising concerns about the privacy of using public sites to fill out our family trees.
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Professor of English, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Criminology & English Literature, Western University
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Research Scientist in Biostatistics, University of Washington
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Research Assistant, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University - Newark
