The new owner of GEDmatch, the third-party genealogy site that's helped investigators crack cases using DNA, is vowing to protect privacy by fighting search warrants.

In 2018, GEDmatch played a key role in reopening the 40-year-old Golden State Killer case. Now a company that serves law enforcement is gobbling it up.

52 years after a 20-year-old woman was found dead at Seattle Center, DNA leads police to her killer Tests performed by GEDmatch help identify who killed Susan Galvin in 1967.

GEDmatch, the DNA analysis site that police used to catch the so-called Golden State Killer, was pulled briefly offline on Sunday while its parent company investigated how its users’ DNA profile ...

University of Washington researchers find in a new study that popular third-party genealogy website GEDmatch leaves users’ DNA data vulnerable to compromise and genetic impersonations by ...

GEDmatch, a longstanding family history site containing around 1.4 million people’s genetic information, had experienced a data breach.

"It's about trust," GEDmatch's new owner said, promising to protect the DNA profiles of users who don't want police to search them.