{"id":37389,"date":"2019-04-26T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37389"},"modified":"2019-04-26T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:29:25","slug":"wired-what-the-golden-state-killer-tells-us-about-forensic-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37389","title":{"rendered":"Wired: What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-meteoric-rise-of-family-tree-forensics-to-fight-crimes\/\">What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics<\/a>:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The practice also raises grave genetic privacy concerns. Namely, a single user can unknowingly cast a web of legal suspicion around hundreds of their family members, who not only haven\u2019t consented to a police search but haven\u2019t even taken a DNA test themselves. There are no laws or policies governing how and when cops can use forensic genetic genealogy. Prosecutors will have to defend the constitutionality of the technique when the first cases go to trial this summer; meanwhile, law enforcement agencies are increasingly reaching into consumer DNA databases for leads, with only those websites\u2019 terms and conditions to keep them in check.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37390,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37389\/revisions\/37390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}