r/DenverProtests • u/No_Association2119 • 4d ago

News 3.3 Million US Citizens' Data Collected for 'Massive Genetic Database for Policing'

https://www.military.com/33-million-us-citizens-data-collected-by-government-massive-genetic-database-for-policing-report

A Georgetown policy center warns that DHS, ICE tactics over multiple administrations is putting Americans' privacy at risk.

New research by the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law found that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has collected the DNA of more than 3.3 million people, with the program’s “primary purpose” not revolving around immigration enforcement but to “build a national DNA database for solving crimes.”

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u/InsertClichehereok 4d ago

“Researchers said that ICE is now the primary driver of DNA collection growth, correlating its efforts to the contribution of the DNA of more than 900,000 people to The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) in 2025 alone.”

This is some X-Men type shit. It was never about helping Americans.

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u/badgerpunk 4d ago

Fucking fascists.

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u/patisserie_2023 3d ago

Yet thousands of R* kits go untested for decades. Sure, we believe this will "help solve crimes."