{"id":41114,"date":"2019-12-10T18:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41114"},"modified":"2019-12-10T18:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:46:50","slug":"eff-genetic-genealogy-company-gedmatch-acquired-by-company-with-ties-to-fbi-law-enforcement-why-you-should-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41114","title":{"rendered":"EFF: Genetic Genealogy Company GEDmatch Acquired by Company With Ties to FBI &#038; Law Enforcement\u2014Why You Should Be Worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2019\/12\/genetic-genealogy-company-gedmatch-acquired-company-ties-fbi-law-enforcement-why\">Genetic Genealogy Company GEDmatch Acquired by Company With Ties to FBI &#038; Law Enforcement\u2014Why You Should Be Worried<\/a> by Jennifer Lynch:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An estimated 30 million people have used genetic genealogy databases like GEDmatch to identify biological relatives and build a family tree, and law enforcement officers have been capitalizing on all that freely available data in criminal investigations. Estimates are that genetic genealogy sites were used in around 200 cases just last year. For many of those cases, officers never sought a warrant or any legal process at all. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: Genetic Genealogy Company GEDmatch Acquired by Company With Ties to FBI &#038; Law Enforcement\u2014Why You Should Be Worried by Jennifer Lynch:<\/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-41114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114","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=41114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41115,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114\/revisions\/41115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}