“…However, the use of such databases raises diverse and complex ethical, social and political questions which, from our perspective, must be considered in the context of suitable involvement of various social actors: legislators, judicial operators, forensic experts, politicians (Machado & Silva, 2015a, 2015bWienroth, Morling, & Williams, 2014). Commentators from different professional fields and scientific disciplines have pointed out the need to consider that the use of forensic genetic databases should be conducted while considering ethical concerns and the need to respect fundamental human rights, such as freedom, autonomy, privacy, presumption of innocence and equality (Amankwaa & McCartney, 2018;Krimsky & Simoncelli, 2011;Van Camp & Dierickx, 2007). The most controversial ethical issues related to DNA databases for criminal investigation above all concern the criteria related to the selection of the DNA profiles to be included and to the collection, conservation, use and circulation of data.…”