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A review by readthesparrow
I Know Who You Are: How An Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter
3.0
While the biographical and historical aspects of the books were really interesting--especially when it came to the author's experiences uniting adoptees and Jane/John Does with their identities--where it lost me was the final few chapters.
Probably would have given it a higher rating if not for the highly confusing and poorly formed argument that media shouldn't examine worries about privacy and the law (like there was this weird metaphor that a genetics site is like a grocery store--the public has access, so law enforcement should too. But, like, that's a false equivalence? While law enforcement can walk into the store like anyone else, they're *not* entitled to a citizen's purchase history or private information—just as they’re not entitled to a citizen’s genetic information submitted to a site with the understanding that it is for the use of building the uploader’s family trees).
Especially when paired with the oddly petulant tone taken when she discussed the fact that sites added privacy options that ensured their users data--which is being submitted for **private use**--was protected from police use, it just left a really bad taste in my mouth at the end of an otherwise pretty interesting memoir.
Probably would have given it a higher rating if not for the highly confusing and poorly formed argument that media shouldn't examine worries about privacy and the law (like there was this weird metaphor that a genetics site is like a grocery store--the public has access, so law enforcement should too. But, like, that's a false equivalence? While law enforcement can walk into the store like anyone else, they're *not* entitled to a citizen's purchase history or private information—just as they’re not entitled to a citizen’s genetic information submitted to a site with the understanding that it is for the use of building the uploader’s family trees).
Especially when paired with the oddly petulant tone taken when she discussed the fact that sites added privacy options that ensured their users data--which is being submitted for **private use**--was protected from police use, it just left a really bad taste in my mouth at the end of an otherwise pretty interesting memoir.