Drop and Give Me 23 (Chromosomes)!

A suspect in a Pennsylvania muder was linked to the crime using DNA from the military's genetic database. This is the first time information from that database has led to the apprehension of a criminal suspect. My first reaction is that there isn't (or needn't be) a serious privacy issue here, since (1) at present, at least, joining the military is still a voluntary affair, and (2) they appear to have pretty stringent safeguards in place, since they claim to get thousands of DNA requests that are turned down. Still, I'd not known that such a database existed until now, and it's probably worth keeping an eye on to ensure that those safeguards stay stringent. (Via Slashdot.)