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Oh. When 

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it comes to keeping tabs on your personal info in this digital 

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arraf here's yeah could be more public than you realize. He 

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April 25 arrest of the Golden State killer the predator 

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responsible for a string of rapes and homicides in the 

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seventies and eighties. Has any sites in the spotlight. Now 

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before finding the alleged Golden State killer investigators 

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first found his great great. Great grandparents. And DNA 

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evidence preserved from the scene of the crime. And that's 

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small independent genealogy site called jet match. One 

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Portman didn't directly approached the genealogy site 

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about the case. In fact they were able to use FB profile 

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using posing as a user researching their family history up 

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on the killer's DNA information. We're immaculate me to 

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the predators and distant relatives from the 18100. And 

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while the site's privacy policies that users should provide 

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their real names for registration. Judge Matsch's policy 

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informed users that they're seeing that could be mined for 

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other purposes. Clearly genealogy sites aren't just for 

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personal family trip pursuits. Don't have to keep track of 

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who has access to your genetic and about and what 

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exactly does speak. Just click your Social Security 

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number your genetic information could be easily abused. 

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Not only that your genes reveal sensitive information about 

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people here believe it to tear. Judge Matsch has almost 

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one million users who voluntarily shared their genetic in 

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battle making it accessible to anyone uploading their own 

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data. Including a law enforcement. More than a dozen 

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similar platforms exist. While other sites may have more 

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stringent policies. Like Ancestry. Com. Or 23 and me 

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you're still giving companies access to revealing 

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information about your health. The only history and 

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relatives. Even if you haven't participated. If relatives have 

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shared there's a live and your part of me online gambling 

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treat you can be tracked down through their DNA and the 

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only history records. The consumer DNA testing trend 

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doesn't look like it's slowing down. The market has valued 

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at seventy million dollars and when he fifteen. Estimates 

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expected to be worth 340. Million dollars by 22 when he 

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TO. In fact Ancestry. Com sold one point five million 

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DNA test kits on Black Friday 2017. Alone. But while 

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these sites have led to the arrest of the alleged Golden 

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State killer. It isn't people have also been wrongly accused 

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based on information pieced together from DNA databases. 

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And accessed poses serious questions around user 

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privacy and rights while the T doesn't any genetic 

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information nondiscrimination act protects consumers from 

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employment. End insurance discrimination related to 

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genetics the law offers no protection for life insurance. 

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Disability insurance long term care insurance or even 

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military service. You wouldn't hand out your Social 

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Security number without having a good idea how was 

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being used right. The treat your DNA with the same level of 

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sensitivity and read the fine print to understand how your 

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genetic material can be used. Or miss used on these sites.