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Jen Briney | Legislation 2017: Corporatization, Backdoor Deals, Data, & DNA
Expansion of the FBI DNA Database
The national DNA database is expanding from a collection of violent offenders to include individuals arrested for minor misdemeanors. This "finders keepers" policy allows the government to retain the genetic code of innocent people who were never convicted of a crime. The lack of media coverage on this expansion has prevented a public debate on the ethics of universal genetic surveillance.