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muriel_volestrangler

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6. UK judges don't make the law. Parliament does.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 5, 2024, 01:32 PM

Jun 2024

So when Parliament made the law saying "you can't access genealogy databases to look for criminal relations", that cut off that avenue. And even if a new parliament did decide to pass a different law, it's unlikely it'd be retroactive - ie all the people who did sign up to a genealogy database thinking their data can't be handed over to the police would expect that so continue.

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Newborn baby found in London has brother and sister also abandoned [View all] sl8 Jun 2024 OP

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