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Vast DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-have-nothing-to-hide-right-citizen dept.

schwit1 writes "Today a Washington Post story discusses the vast U.S. bank of genetic material it has gathered over the last few years. Already home to the genetic information of almost 3 Million Americans, the database grows by 80,000 citizens a month." From the article: "'This is the single best way to catch bad guys and keep them off the street,' said Chris Asplen, a lawyer with the Washington firm Smith Alling Lane and former executive director of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. 'When it's applied to everybody, it is fair, and frankly you wouldn't even know it was going on.'"

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  1. Re:Bad guys by Vengie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He was also a big homo. [Although despite what the movies would suggest, I'm thinking he was the butchbottom type.]

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    When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
  2. Re:DNA is the new fingerprint. by pommiekiwifruit · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ...the causes of the Revolutionary War.

    Surely the US revolutionary war was caused for the same thing as the war against mexico, and the civil war - for the right to keep slaves.