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Google Search Introduces ‘Perspectives’ Filter for More Personal and Human-Centric Results

Google Search is introducing a new feature called “Perspectives”, a specific filter designed to bring you information sourced from individuals on forums and social media platforms. This innovative tool appears on qualifying search queries that could be enriched by the experiences and insights of others, supplementing the existing array of tabs including Images, Maps, and various topic-based filters.

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Law Enforcement is Searching Ancestry.com and 23andMe DNA Databases

We’ve always said that submitting your DNA for DNA analysis at services like 23andMe, and AncestryDNA by Ancestry.com, is a bad idea, because regardless of what ‘good’ can come from it, the potential for bad is just too great. Having unknown actors have access to your DNA information is a violation of privacy of the most basic, and intimate, kind. Sadly, we were right. Law enforcement agencies are now using what is known as “familial DNA search” to go on DNA fishing expeditions, searching for near matches to DNA found at a crime scene.