{"id":7524,"date":"2018-04-27T01:53:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T05:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=8ccd2b51579daf14f335893512330a0f"},"modified":"2018-04-27T01:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T05:53:18","slug":"use-of-dna-in-serial-killer-probe-sparks-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/27\/use-of-dna-in-serial-killer-probe-sparks-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of DNA in serial killer probe sparks privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; Privacy concerns are being raised over investigators&#8217; use of a genealogical website to find the California man they say is a serial killer and rapist.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph DeAngelo was arrested Tuesday after investigators say they matched crime-scene DNA using genetic material stored by a distant relative on a website.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say it&#8217;s an innovative technique that broke open the long-cold case of the Golden State Killer, who slew at least a dozen people and raped 50 women from 1976 to 1986.<\/p>\n<p>But Steve Mercer of the Maryland public defender&#8217;s office says it pinpoints a problem: There aren&#8217;t strong privacy laws to keep police from trolling such databases.<\/p>\n<p>Mercer says right now, people who submit DNA to be tested to find their ancestors can unwittingly become &#8220;genetic informants&#8221; on family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. &mdash; Privacy concerns are being raised over investigators&rsquo; use of a genealogical website to find the California man they say is a serial killer and rapist. Joseph DeAngelo was arrested Tuesday after investigators say they matched crime-scene DNA using genetic material stored by a distant relative on a website. Authorities say it&rsquo;s an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7535,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions\/7535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}