Genealogy helped make an arrest in the Idaho murders. But are there privacy concerns?

Investigators needed more than old-fashioned police work to catch the suspect they believe is behind the November slaying of four students at the University of Idaho. Detectives relied on forensic genealogy to make an arrest, according to a report Slate technology writer Heather Tal Murphy. She joined Sue O’Connell, along with Antonio Regalado, Senior Editor for Biomedicine at the MIT, to discuss how Idaho investigators worked with genealogists to crack the case and the privacy issues these crime-solving methods can pose.

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[pennydavis]

We are hearing great inside facts. A good picture for real people.

[boysmom]

No- once you put your trash out- especially when you put it in the NEIGHBORS garbage- its free game. It ISNT against the law and hasn't been because it is not violating someone's rights "one man's trash is another man's treasure". It is what it is.

[katyneu]

Just seems like old news.They have been using geology DNA for years