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It will be harder to get away with crimes if everyone's DNA is on file. Of course if you recently visited the place where a crime took place you might also be
by RandallBrown 3y ago
It will be harder to get away with crimes if everyone's DNA is on file.
Of course if you recently visited the place where a crime took place you might also be falsely accused.
I suppose they could also use it to track your movements if there was some way to massively collect DNA samples from the environment.
- rolph 3y agoThere is some way to massively collect DNA samples from the environment. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2375624-air-pollution-monitors-have-been-accidentally-harvesting-wildlife-dna/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2375624-air-pollution-m... https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230606-how-air-pollution-sensors-can-find-wildlife https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230606-how-air-pollutio... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221016900 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222... these can be deployed at great density in an array providing granularity made to order.
- jart 3y agoWow this sounds like a slam dunk for my next YC application.
- pessimizer 3y agoOr they could bust a place where religious services were held in secret, or an apartment where gay people gather to socialize, or an underground abortion clinic, suck up the DNA and get warrants for everybody. That isn't being falsely accused, it's worse.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> It will be harder to get away with crimes if everyone's DNA is on file. A core problem with any surveillance is that it is disproportional and only available to the powerful. If access to surveillance were as universal as possible, powerful interests would suddenly find the will to wind it back.