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To Solve a Cold Case, French Police Bent DNA Privacy Law

The Journal. by The Wall Street Journal

Aug 12, 202625:19News & Politics

Across Europe, law enforcement agencies want permission to use genetic genealogy to solve criminal cold cases. But privacy laws restrict the use of recreational DNA in most of Europe. WSJ’s Matthew Dalton reports on how...

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To Solve a Cold Case, French Police Bent DNA Privacy Law is an episode from The Journal. by The Wall Street Journal. Across Europe, law enforcement agencies want permission to use genetic genealogy to solve criminal cold cases. But privacy...

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Published Aug 12, 2026, 25:19 long, audio available.