Federal Agencies To Collect Genetic Info

protagoras writes "According to a bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, suspects arrested or detained by federal authorities may have their DNA forcibly collected for permanent storage in a central database. The bill is supported by the White House as well, but has not yet gone to the floor for a vote. Current law permits this only for those convicted of a crime. So even though completely innocent, should the Feds decide to detain you for any reason, your genetic data will grace their database beside that from murders, terrorists, and other miscreants." From the article: "The provision, co-sponsored by Kyl and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), does not require the government to automatically remove the DNA data of people who are never convicted. Instead, those arrested or detained would have to petition to have their information removed from the database after their cases were resolved. Privacy advocates are especially concerned about possible abuses such as profiling based on genetic characteristics."

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wall.. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was Hitler's American financier.. (or 'Hitler's Angel' as the NY Daily Tribune put it) and the US was uber-friendly with many Nazis after WWII. It does need to be added that this was in our fight against also-*quite*-evil Stalin and the then hyperrepressive USSR, but this cozy relationship with fascists and fascism survives to this day, as evidenced by the ongoing 'ethnic outreach' efforts of the GOP, which targets many former fascists and their communities that have emigrated to the US, as natural allies of the American far right.