Experts call it a major game-changer for cold-case investigations: DNA and genetic genealogy. These methods can also identify living people. For example, DNA profiles pulled from publicly available ancestry websites were used to identify and arrest The Golden State Killer for a series of murders dating back to the 1970s and 80s. Cece Moore is chief genetic genealogist with Parabon Nanolabs and PBS’s Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She talked about the relationship between DNA and law enforcement.

On Second Thought for Tuesday, July 5, 2018.

While Atlanta remains on Amazon’s short list for its second headquarters, not everyone likes what the company brings with it. Currently, the ACLU and Amazon employees have demanded the company to stop marketing its facial recognition technology to law enforcement. Amazon calls the technology Rekognition. It detects and analyzes not only faces, but objects and entire scenes. Ayanna Howard, chairman of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and Ali Breland, tech/policy reporter at The Hill spoke about the biases in artificial intelligence and privacy concerns with technology.