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This is more than that: it wasnt his dna, it was one of his relatives dna on the site that got him found.

Im guessing that any relative has a right to divulge his dna and rat out a blood relative in a situation like this, but I doubt people actually consent to that use when they are looking at a genealogy site.

Well one of the big uses of ancestry services is to find unknown relatives, so...yay?

Nope. rummaging through the trash doesn't require a warrant.

I meant the access to commercial DNA databases. Looks like it’s been explained above.