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muriel_volestrangler

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4. But the point is that the only available database only has criminals on it

Wed Jun 5, 2024, 11:48 AM

Jun 2024

GDPR forbids the use of genealogy databases by the police (I've just remembered that was a plot point in a British TV drama I watched recently), so they have the police national DNA database, but you're only on that if you have a criminal record. So it needs close relatives with a criminal record. And I think it's saying it therefore only helps 20% of the time.

I haven't read that the police have not tried - was that in the article? I've just read that they have not succeeded in identifying the parents.

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In the US, we could quickly identify the parents of these babies using DNA. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #1

The standard (in 2020) was that genealogy databases couldn't be used like that; the criminal database worked about 20% muriel_volestrangler Jun 2024 #2

The hit rate is much higher than 20% in non criminal DNA searches. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #3

But the point is that the only available database only has criminals on it muriel_volestrangler Jun 2024 #4

Gedmatch is an available LE data base and it does not have only criminals in it. Irish_Dem Jun 2024 #5

UK judges don't make the law. Parliament does. muriel_volestrangler Jun 2024 #6