It may be a while: long-lost relatives, looking up through commercial DNA databases and the internet. Now, the department of Justice to find out if the websites that can be used to get coldcases solve, wrote the minister Ferd Grapperhaus, in a letter to the house of commons.
Among others, an expert from the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), and the DNA investigator called earlier in the Dutch newspaper NRC on the use of a commercial DNA databases, and surveys. In the United States, which led to the solving of the seventy cases, within one and one-half years of age.
the Online DNA databases to give customers the opportunity to order their own background investigations. You are sending, for example, a q-tip with some saliva to the company, then the DNA profile analysis on the geographic origin, or to compare it with other profiles in the database.
you could, for example, a distant relative to be detected. Sometimes, it can also provide insight into the risk for certain diseases and medical conditions. Well-known examples of this type of companies are, inter alia, GEDmatch, 23andMe, or FamilyTreeDNA.
Using a database it is a software' < / p> Grapperhaus describes the use of a commercial DNA databases to solve coldcases as an "interesting option" and said that the wish to understand the new opsporingsmethodes to work.
the Police, the judiciary, the Public prosecution service and the NFI so you have to find out "the extent to which these new developments can be used in a Dutch criminal procedural law," he writes Grapperhaus.
finally, Justice is going to have to start with a 'crawl'as The prime minister points out that concerns about privacy will play in the process. When people have their DNA profiles uploaded to any commercial database, it means that there will also be information available in the (distant) family members who have chosen to make their profile onto the database, upload it, write Grapperhaus.
"the Use of genealogical DNA databases are, therefore, had an impact on the privacy of many people, and we should, in a careful manner, will be dealt with," said the minister.
the Judiciary, the police, the Public prosecution service and the NFI will, therefore, in a first orientation and identity, trying to identify the unknown dead. These deaths need to be sure that they don't become a victim of a crime has been committed. That would be quite a lot of technical and legal issues" with them bring to the table.
Date Of Update: 24 February 2020, 19:00
