Little_grey_lady
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My understanding is that it's up to the individual websites to decide if they will allow it or not.That struck me when I was watching it, I know it's been done in America, I just wonder if there are legal obstacles here regarding the use of ancestral DNA.
I did a search and came up with this interesting article:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...-of-such-methods-in-the-uk-accessible-version
"This process of uploading DNA from a crime scene in the ‘Golden State killer’ case to GEDmatch violated the terms and conditions of use. These terms stated that the person submitting the DNA had to declare that; it was their own DNA; or they were the legal guardian of the DNA donor; or they were otherwise authorised.
23andMe, AncestryDNA and MyHeritage do not allow law enforcement use of their databases without a warrant. FamilyTreeDNA offers an ‘opt-out from law enforcement matching’ possibility, and all European users are automatically opted out in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Contributors to GEDmatch, which allows law enforcement use of ‘public’ profiles with permission in serious cases, must actively opt in to law enforcement matching."