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A pilot program DNA-testing immigrants at the Southern border will start next week and run for two to three days. Both ICE and Customs and Border Protection will be involved in the pilot. Allegedly, it is a new effort to crack down on fraud, Homeland Security officials said on Wednesday….
A handful of genetic testing companies have voluntarily agreed on a set of guidelines to address privacy after backlash concerns from consumers on sharing DNA data, especially since law enforcement now utilizes genealogy websites to crack cases. 23andMe, Ancestry, Helix, MyHeritage, Habit, African Ancestry and FamilyTreeDNA, in collaboration with the…
The findings of an AncestryDNA test have resulted in a lawsuit from a police sergeant in Hastings, Mich. Police Sgt. Cleon Brown, who has been with the department for 19 years, discovered last fall that he is 18 percent African American, despite his long-held belief that he is part Native…
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