A baby snatched from a Chicago hospital in 1964 was reunited with his parents 15-months later. But was it the same baby?

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. One study by The University of Oxford in 2016 found that there were around 246 genetics-testing companies selling kits around the world, from giants like AncestryDNA and 23andme to “Who’zTheDaddy?”, and are generally fairly unregulated. He was a horrible man and it is good that he was identified, but does the end justify the means?” Peter Neufeld, a co-founder of The Innocence Project, which uses DNA to exonerate people who were wrongly convicted, told The Times: “There is a whole generation that says, ‘I don’t really care about privacy’. No one has thought about what are the possible consequences.” Whilst the majority of testing companies claim that they won’t release details to law enforcement, some officers have been found to have used the sites by setting up a private account and uploading crime scene DNA, and other companies have quietly changed their fine print in the last few years. In 2019, The Pentagon allegedly instructed members of the US military to avoid using at-home DNA testing kits, citing concerns of mass surveillance and the potential for private companies to “exploit genetic materials for questionable purposes”.