During Black Friday and Cyber Monday, bargain-hunting Americans went online to stock up on millions of Xboxes and televisions, Barbies and Lego sets, iPhones and countless other holiday goodies. They ...

Authorities tried to gain access to Ancestry's massive DNA database with a search warrant last year, the genealogy company has revealed in its transparency report. Ancestry divulged the information ...

A Pennsylvania court gave law enforcement officers access to the world’s largest DNA database in the world. We don’t really know when this happened or why the cops wanted the data. Ancestry.com, ...

Ongoing updates to popular genealogy company Ancestry.com have sent some users into a full-blown identity crisis. Ancestry.com is beginning to roll out changes to its users' ethnic backgrounds which ...

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 ...

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 ...

iStock The aim is to build a "reference genome" to better understand genetic variants that affect Black people and potentially develop new medicines. Scientists are setting out to collect genetic ...

Ancestry.com is adding historic U.S. Census records to boost its archive of searchable names to 5 billion, making it what the company calls the most comprehensive genealogical database ever compiled.

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 ...