A class-action lawsuit filed in August alleges that the operator of GEDmatch.com, a genealogy site that claims to have a database of more than 1 million members, has been sharing users’ information ...

The most often used are GEDmatch.com and FamilyTreeDNA.com. Both GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA require a person uploading DNA to agree to have their sample used in law enforcement searches. A person does ...

A huge data breach followed by a plummeting valuation has stoked fears of a sale of 23andMe along with all of its customers' genetic data.

Investigators told the San Jose Mercury News that by consulting an open-source DNA-sharing website called GEDmatch, they were able to find the genetic information of a distant relative of DeAngelo's.

QIAGEN N.V. QGEN recently announced that Bode Technology will be the exclusive global commercial partner for its GEDmatch PRO genealogy database. QIAGEN’s subsidiary Verogen inked the deal with ...

(DNA Doe Project) Using online DNA databases like GEDmatch and FamilyTreeDNA, volunteer genealogists painstakingly pieced together family trees over months, eventually linking "Fulton County John ...

GEDmatch stands apart from companies such as 23andMe. It’s an open, crowdsourced database that anyone can search. Founded in 2010, it emerged as a tool for genealogy enthusiasts to upload DNA ...

Following the resignation of every independent member of the company’s board of directors, its chief executive, Anne Wojcicki, expressed openness to selling the company and its database of around 15 ...

A class-action lawsuit filed in August alleges that the operator of GEDmatch.com, a genealogy site that claims to have a database of more than 1 million members, has been sharing users ...