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Sweden has a registry of blood samples of every person born in sweden since 1975: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKU-registret https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKU-
by kzrdude 3y ago
Sweden has a registry of blood samples of every person born in sweden since 1975: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKU-registret https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKU-registret (Swedish only wiki page)
Predictably?, amusingly? police never had access to this data, until a government minister was murdered in 2003, when a sample from the suspect was retrieved. From what we know it has not been used since. So we can be cynical, but under the circumstances, the police use of the registry has not yet taken hold and is guarded by the courts..
- zlg_codes 3y agoBoy, that "yet" reaaaally makes me feel comfortable trusting government with information it can use to kill entire families.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIf the government wanted you gone there wouldn’t be this song and dance about getting dna data from a blood bank. They’d just kill you and that would be that.
- zlg_codes 3y agoThey can barely agree on a budget. They wouldn't be able to unify against the public, they're too dysfunctional. You'd need a President willing to defy his oath and two other branches on board with him. Not happening.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoCongress is not the agency that does the killing. More efficient ones with practically zero oversight do. See Frank Olson for an example, we only know about that after mkultra was revealed in CIA abuse investigations. His family still is fighting for justice some 60 years after his assassination.
- kzrdude 3y agoIt is interesting how that 'single exception in 2003' really erodes trust in the whole thing. It's very hard to come back from that.