All of the following would be ethical concerns of genetic genealogy use:
- A mistake in matching genes to suspects could send an innocent person to jail.
- Scientists do not have permission to use genetic information submitted to a database.
However, the following are not necessarily ethical concerns:
- Genetic genealogy may be the only way to find out who committed the crime. (This is not necessarily an ethical concern, but rather a practical consideration.)
- A genetic match could impact the reputation of the criminal. (While this may be an unfortunate consequence, it is not necessarily an ethical concern.)