Sunday 10 February 2019

More on FamilyTreeDNA and privacy issues

Some more posts of interest on the recent development with FamilyTreeDNA is allowing law enforcement agencies access to its database (see https://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2019/02/familytreedna-is-now-working-with-fbi.html).

Philip Grass has written an interesting blog post about the situation at https://learnalittleeveryday.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/opinion-familytreedna-must-decide-if-they-are-for-genealogists-or-law-enforcement-agencies/.

Elsewhere, the legal genealogist Judy G. Russell and DNA expert Debbie Kennett give their thoughts on the situation in a podcast at https://blog.insito.me/the-insight-show-notes-season-2-episode-13-is-the-fbi-watching-your-dna-571c92f9fc3.

And some reassurances form other DNA firms about privacy can be read at https://www.genomeweb.com/applied-markets/genetic-genealogy-firms-reassure-clients-about-data-privacy-after-ftdna-divulges-fbi?utm_source=addthis_shares#.XGACWrjgqUl.

Chris

My next Scottish Research Online course starts March 11th 2019 - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. Details of my genealogical research service are available at www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk. For my Scottish and Irish themed books, visit https://britishgenes.blogspot.com/p/my-books.html. Further news published daily on The GENES Blog Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

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  1. I signed up as required for access to their free articles to try to read the GenomeWeb article, but the link you supplied must be to a premium article, as I still was unable to see it.

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