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ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-dna-collection-fbi-codis/
56•BlueBerry2001•1h ago

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throwaway2027•53m ago
Just in time to train an AI model on it and discriminate based on heuristics. /s
zombot•2m ago
Maybe they'll discover the illegal-immigrant gene or the unwanted-wrongthinker gene.
voidUpdate•17m ago
IF there was a secure and trustable way that a trusted government could retain DNA information, then I feel like people having a DNA test at birth or on becoming a citizen could be useful, both medically ("your sample indicates you may have a higher risk of dementia") and from a policing standpoint ("we found DNA on this woman's clothes and immediately matched it to this man who hasn't committed a crime before" or "we were able to identify this john doe because their DNA was on record"). However, given that companies and governments are awful, I don't think it could ever actually work in practice :/
usrnm•11m ago
Life in general would be a lot simpler and nicer in a perfect world with perfect (whatever it means) people in it
mft_•11m ago
Indeed. It’s essentially the age-old conundrum: I don’t need to worry about my privacy because I’m not breaking the rules… until someone changes the rules.
sidewndr46•8m ago
There are several European countries that do this from what I understand
hvb2•3m ago
Do what, fingerprinting or collecting DNA? Not sure what you're trying to say, if Europe does it, it's fine?

The gist is that this was always done when people were arrested for criminal offences. They're now doing it for civil offences and, like with all the ICE stuff, it seems to be do first, ask questions later. So you can be a citizen but your data might end up in their systems anyway as it's submitted before they find out you are a citizen...

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