{"id":99977,"date":"2019-12-20T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/cops-can-now-get-warrants-for-entire-dna-websites"},"modified":"2019-12-20T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T00:43:16","slug":"cops-can-now-get-warrants-for-entire-dna-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/cops-can-now-get-warrants-for-entire-dna-websites","title":{"rendered":"Cops Can Now Get Warrants for Entire DNA Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cops-can-now-get-warrants-for-entire-dna-websites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To that end, Fields decided to ask a Florida judge to grant him a warrant that would override the new policy, allowing him to search GEDmatch\u2019s entire database, including users who hadn\u2019t opted in \u2014 and Judge Patricia Strowbridge did just that, the detective announced at a recent police convention, according to the <em>NYT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Legal experts told the <em>NYT<\/em> that this appears to be the first time a judge has approved a DNA website warrant this broad, with New York University law professor Erin Murphy calling it \u201ca huge game-changer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company made a decision to keep law enforcement out, and that\u2019s been overridden by a court,\u201d Murphy told the newspaper. \u201cIt\u2019s a signal that no genetic information can be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To that end, Fields decided to ask a Florida judge to grant him a warrant that would override the new policy, allowing him to search GEDmatch\u2019s entire database, including users who hadn\u2019t opted in \u2014 and Judge Patricia Strowbridge did just that, the detective announced at a recent police convention, according to the NYT. Legal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1493,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-law-enforcement","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}