Using DNA for criminal investigations is great—until it turns an innocent person into a suspect.
Genealogy websites identify rape suspect who eluded police for 40 years
Match came after finding relatives' DNA on commercial service, news reports say.
Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising
If you're of European descent, there's a good chance that you can be found.
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
New Jersey court says defendant must be able to challenge evidence
A Researcher Needed Three Hours to Identify Me From My DNA
My case highlights the threat to privacy from genetic databases.
Ancestry.com can use your DNA to target ads - CITP Blog
With the reduction in costs of genotyping technology, genetic genealogy has become accessible to more people. Various websites such as Ancestry.com offer genetic genealogy services. Users of these services are mailed an envelope with a DNA collection kit, in which users deposit their saliva. The users then mail their kits back to the service and […]
Microbiomes raise privacy concerns
DNA from microbes living on the human body can be used to identify individuals.
How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database
New techniques that dig more deeply into genetic databases may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard
Police forensic tools may bypass key phone security feature
Up-to-date iPhones can lock out some forensic devices by rebooting. One major forensics company claims to have a workaround
What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction
A few weeks before the release of my first book, a memoir about my mother’s murder, I had to take a polygraph exam. The two things were not in fact related, but that was easy to forget once I found…
Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN
A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to before. Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged “a few errors” in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
Researchers planted a working hacker exploit in a physical strand of DNA.
How DNA Editing Could Change Life on Earth
Researchers hope to use the powerful biological tool to alter the genetic destiny of species and eliminate diseases.
THE “GHOST BOX” FRAUD
By: Demetrius (Co-Founder of the OCPRS, Toronto Canada) Paranormal Researchers have always adopted various technologies to conduct investigations. In recent years, a controversial technology that h…
Opinion | I’m a Judge. Here’s How Surveillance Is Challenging Our Legal System. (Published 2019)
Prosecutors have stepped into the void left by Congress’s failure to say how far the police can go in using investigative technology.
Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶x̶ a friend, cause I can
How I registered a Linux machine with Apple's private services, received an existing Find My People key over IDS, and decrypted the live location without a Mac.
DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome