The judge found the popular genealogy website did not take advantage of any private data when they used decades-old yearbook pictures in marketing materials. (Image by Kristýna Matlachová from Pixabay ...

Consumer genomics company Ancestry has confirmed it fought two U.S. law enforcement requests to access its DNA database in the past six months, but that neither request resulted in turning over ...

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Ancestry.com (Ancestry) was sued on November 30, 2020, in a putative class action case filed in the Northern District of California for “knowingly misappropriating the photographs, likenesses, names, ...

If you're interested in learning more about your ancestors, you may be one of many people who've used ancestry.com to trace your genealogy. Now that website has released a new, free database of tens ...

(Reuters) - Ancestry.com Inc and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan have beat back a lawsuit alleging the company uses and profits from photos and personal data in its yearbook database ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A nationwide program is searching for the names of 10 million people who were enslaved in the United States over nearly three centuries. The Avery Research Center in Charleston is ...

Over about a year in the mid-2000s, four women reported being attacked by a man in the area of Terminal Street in Charlestown. Despite possessing the attacker’s DNA, Boston Police were stumped. More ...

Ancestry.com LLC and its related entities are facing a new proposed class action accusing the company of misappropriating and misusing individuals' personal information in its database of U.S. school ...