eye95
Well-known member
The first time that DNA databases had been used to identify a criminal, they had a suspect in mind, and verified his having left DNA at the scene by looking at the DNA of close relatives in private DNA databases.
Now, they have the DNA of the unknown perpetrator and are doing wide sweeps of all the DNA in private databases.
1. Private DNA databases should start from a default position that no DNA may be examined without a warrant.
2. The warrant should name a suspect and call for only the examination of DNA of immediate blood relatives.
3. The warrant should name the specific blood relatives whose DNA would be examined.
4. To obtain the warrant, the government should have to show that they have probable cause to believe that the suspect committed the crime and that the people whose DNA they wish to examine are immediate blood relatives (mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister)
5. Customers of private DNA databases should have the authority under the law to demand that, after the DNA results have been received by the customer, for the DNA database to permanently and irretrievably delete all of their DNA information.
Bear in mind that, even if YOU do not put your DNA into a private database, YOU can be identified from information in that database belonging to your close relatives.
It is great that rapists and murderers are being identified. But what stops the government from finding you because you left your DNA on a soda can at a protest for which the government wants to punish you simply for your exercise of your 1A Rights?
Now, they have the DNA of the unknown perpetrator and are doing wide sweeps of all the DNA in private databases.
1. Private DNA databases should start from a default position that no DNA may be examined without a warrant.
2. The warrant should name a suspect and call for only the examination of DNA of immediate blood relatives.
3. The warrant should name the specific blood relatives whose DNA would be examined.
4. To obtain the warrant, the government should have to show that they have probable cause to believe that the suspect committed the crime and that the people whose DNA they wish to examine are immediate blood relatives (mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister)
5. Customers of private DNA databases should have the authority under the law to demand that, after the DNA results have been received by the customer, for the DNA database to permanently and irretrievably delete all of their DNA information.
Bear in mind that, even if YOU do not put your DNA into a private database, YOU can be identified from information in that database belonging to your close relatives.
It is great that rapists and murderers are being identified. But what stops the government from finding you because you left your DNA on a soda can at a protest for which the government wants to punish you simply for your exercise of your 1A Rights?
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