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Slightly biased because I'm a european, but I think a european country is more likely to be trust-able with a country-wide DNA database. Only slightly more thou
by voidUpdate 2mo ago
Slightly biased because I'm a european, but I think a european country is more likely to be trust-able with a country-wide DNA database. Only slightly more though, I still wouldn't trust them to actually do it right
- kelnos 2mo agoEven if the government remains perpetually trustworthy (good luck with that), it's inevitable that the database will be hacked by a bad actor, if the information is valuable.
- lenerdenator 2mo ago> Slightly biased because I'm a european, but I think a european country is more likely to be trust-able with a country-wide DNA database. There were multiple governments operating pervasive surveillance states and using them to punish dissidents on the western part of European continent well within a human lifetime from today. What makes you think that won't happen again, this time in a completely iron-clad way?
- crote 2mo ago> well within a human lifetime from today You can just say "at this very moment".
- lenerdenator 2mo agoWell, that's true, but it's not as on-the-nose as, say, Francisco Franco did it.
- voidUpdate 2mo ago> "Only slightly more though" Generally, we've seen that that was bad and I would hope that we wouldn't do it again. I did also say that I don't think it would actually work out because governments, in my original comment