{"id":1794048,"date":"2023-01-03T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794048"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:19:50","slug":"arrest-in-idaho-murders-is-a-reminder-that-your-dna-is-not-private-or-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arrest-in-idaho-murders-is-a-reminder-that-your-dna-is-not-private-or-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Murders Arrest Reminds You That Your DNA Isn&#8217;t Private or Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farrest-in-idaho-murders-is-a-reminder-that-your-dna-is-not-private-or-safe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Police arrested a suspect Friday in the brutal stabbing and murder of four University of Idaho student in November. Bryan Christopher Kohberger, a 28-year old criminology graduate student was arrested by law enforcement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/idaho-murders-suspect-identified-dna-genealogy-databases-police\/story?id=96088596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">through DNA<\/a>\u00a0Sourced from a public genealogical database. Kohberger\u2019s arrest is a relief to Americans across the country, particularly the victims\u2019 families and the traumatized Moscow, Idaho community. It is also a reminder of the dangers that DNA technology poses to safety, privacy, and personal freedoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, DNA famously helped catch Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., a serial killer, sex offender, and burglar, who terrorized Californians for more than a decade in the 1970s and \u201980s. DeAngelo was found by investigators through distant relatives who used GEDmatch, which is a free genealogy website that allows users to upload their DNA test results and find related relatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Killer case highlighted the ethical issues surrounding crime solving using DNA databases. The primary problem is that there is no guarantee of DNA privacy, even if you don\u2019t submit your DNA to a company like GEDmatch. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you don&#8217;t have any relatives who submit DNA. People can be identified by distant relatives. The Golden State Killer case is an example of law enforcement.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/to-find-alleged-golden-state-killer-investigators-first-found-his-great-great-great-grandparents\/2018\/04\/30\/3c865fe7-dfcc-4a0e-b6b2-0bec548d501f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">narrowed<\/a>\u00a0their search using DNA data from family members directly related to DeAngelo\u2019s great-great-great grandparents dating back to the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>Many wave away the privacy concerns because DNA has been used to catch criminals, including murderers like Kohberger, but there\u2019s no guarantee this technology will always be used for good. The integrity of any institution is not guaranteed. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/19\/think-the-fbi-deserves-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-this-laundry-list-of-corruption-should-make-you-think-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/17\/the-cia-got-caught-spying-on-americans-again-its-time-for-congress-to-make-them-stop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CIA<\/a>And <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/19\/6-huge-takeaways-from-the-sixth-dump-of-twitter-files\/\">DHS<\/a> They have already illegally abused their power against the American people.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Don\u2019t Believe the Privacy Promises\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Another problem is that companies\u2019 privacy promises are completely bogus. There are many ways to get in touch with us.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>GEDmatch 2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/27\/us\/genetic-genealogy-gedmatch-privacy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solve<\/a>\u00a0The case of a 71 year-old woman who was strangled as she performed the organ in a church alone. Per GEDmatch\u2019s terms of service, the site would only share users\u2019 DNA with law enforcement in the case of sexual assault or homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the Utah victim was not sexually assaulted and survived the attack, GEDmatch was not supposed to share users\u2019 data to solve the case. However, the company\u2019s founder decided to hand over DNA data anyway. The offender was subsequently caught and GEDmatch users\u2019 privacy was breached.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a response to the outrage expressed by users regarding privacy violations,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/05\/business\/dna-database-search-warrant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GEDmatch<\/a>\u00a0Decided that people would be able to choose to \u201copt-in\u201d to allow law enforcement to access their DNA. The hope was that they would be able to access their DNA. \u201copt-in\u201d This would ensure that users&#8217; privacy is protected if they do not want their data to be shared. However, in the fall of 2019, a warrant by law enforcement in Florida demanded access to all of GEDmatch\u2019s DNA profiles, including users who had not opted to give law enforcement access. GEDmatch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thednageek.com\/the-gedmatch-warrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complied<\/a>\u00a0With the warrant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just because you don\u2019t submit your DNA test results to GEDmatch, doesn\u2019t mean your privacy is protected. GEDmatch may have violated the terms of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrest is a comfort to the victims&#8217; families but also a reminder that we need to address DNA privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":1794051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5175,12600,6919,6318,5778,9032,4070,13089,6551],"class_list":["post-1794048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-arrest","tag-dna","tag-federalist","tag-idaho","tag-isnt","tag-murders","tag-private","tag-reminds","tag-safe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}