Following the arrest of the Golden State Killer, a suspect named Joseph James DeAngelo, investigators confessed to using genealogy website GEDmatch to trace DNA left at crime scenes to the suspect. Some involved in the investigation questioned the legality of this move but it was deemed acceptable by a lawyer with the F.B.I.
Join us today as we consider the implications this move has on the future of DNA profiling as well as the policy behind government agencies and their Twitter pages.
Guests:
Thomas Fuller, San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times
Muira McCammon, Slate contributor, military policy researcher, University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication
Daniel Bader, managing editor, Android Central