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Californians To Vote On Largest DNA Database

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @01:53PM from the you'll-feel-a-little-pinch dept.

mpthompson writes "California law enforcement officials are backing a proposed ballot measure that would give them authority to operate the largest DNA database in the world and collect DNA samples from everyone arrested or convicted on felony charges."

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Re:Yup every Felon by MattCohn.com · 2003-12-23 18:01 · Score: 0, Troll

And I hear this thing they're making called a "Video Camera" can be used to watch you from affar! The government is going to abuse it they are!

Besides, they already collect fingerprints. This isn't any different, except that it's more acurate with less false negatives/false positives. I think this is a good thing.