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Police can request your DNA without your knowledge or consent via ancestry websites
• https://www.rt.comSending a sample of your DNA through the post may seem like a harmless and novel way of tracing your ancestry, and millions of Americans have already done so, but there is a more sinister side to this relatively new enterprise.