Police were cracking cold cases with a DNA website. Then the fine print changed.

Privacy concerns are valid, but shouldn't we also consider all those untested rape kits and murder victims The danger of violent criminals re offending and creating more victims over decades, not to mention wrongfully convicted individuals spending life in prison? Perhaps maybe there is a way to do this the right way? "As law enforcement searches of his site surged, Rogers imposed a few restrictions. He allowed investigators to pursue leads on homicides and rapes, but not less serious crimes like assaults. Then, late last year, police in Utah asked Rogers to use the site to investigate an attack on an elderly church organist, who was seriously hurt but survived. Rogers agreed, and police used GEDmatch to identify a 17-year-old suspect, who was arrested in April. But that bending of Rogers' own rules on how police could use GEDmatch triggered a backlash that led him to change the site's terms of service. On May 18, all GEDmatch members were removed from law enforcement searches and offered a chance to opt in if they wanted to be included." (ab) http://ow.ly/hksA50wUwtG
To Article