Mandatory DNA Registration at Birth

[PsychoticEpisode]

Not sure if this has been a topic of discussion before but should everyone alive and every baby born be subject to giving a DNA sample to be included in a national or international databank? Would something like this be a weapon in the battle against crime or an invasion of privacy?

Obviously a high percentage of people will never be involved in a major crime in which they are a suspect but could the DNA information you've provided be used against you in some nefarious way if in the hands of the wrong people? Or if this DNA databank is made available to medical research would it be helpful?

Personally I wouldn't care but I am not too well versed in DNA to know if this is something I should think twice about if the opportunity or directive occurred for me to submit a sample.

A worldwide databank for DNA.....good idea or bad?

 

[Prince_James]

It is a presumption of guilt and a means of government control, subjecting oneself to the whims of institutions which are not at all infallible, and which according to government laxity, open to massive abuse.

And no, medical researchers have no right to take anyone's DNA without their permission, and more then likely. But talk about "ultimate identity theft", if someone stole your DNA samples from this databank.

 

[sderenzi]

I think there are pros & cons to this idea. First of all what if we kept data on the sexiest woman ever to live?! That way we could easily CLONE, MERGE, etc the DNA an make new ones. In a few thousand years woman would be so incredibly hot that we'd just ejac looking at them.

Secondly if there really is a DNA database what is the actual point? Sure you can find anyones DNA profile an identify them, but listen they'll use it against you, they always do. What if they make a virus based on your genetic predispositions? They'd know what you're allergic to, what weaknesses you have, it's be terrible. The problem I see is nobody wants to chill out an think! So what if a few hundred thousand people commit crimes, rapes, and basically are inhuman, the rest of us humans want to stay that way not become Christ Evangelical Christians that freak out whenever someone says a swear word or thinks differently.

Thankfully even if the US does somehow become a policed nation an begin violating laws that should exist but don't, well the third world countries will still have the upper hand, no way we could DNA profile all them!

 

[PsychoticEpisode]

Right now you have to commit a violent offence against someone to get your DNA recorded. That means someone is a victim.

Hell, you don't even have to volunteer a DNA sample, someone following you around is bound to find it where you left it, like on a piece of gum or a beer can. Much easier to get it at birth? Nobody wants the afterbirth anyways, we'll just send it to the lab. They could be gathering DNA right now and we wouldn't know it.

Imagine if DNA technology improves to the point where identifying you at an airport security check takes only seconds, a tool for passenger safety perhaps? What's more important, protection or the right to say no to mandatory DNA registration?

 

[Prince_James]

The right to say no to DNA registration.

An obsession with protection is the mark of the inferior, even infantile, person.

 

[Absane]

No to DNA registration.

In theory, this is a good idea. However, in practice this leads to more government control and power.

Since more government is bad, DNA registration is a bad idea.

 

[Sgal]

I think even though DNA registration will take freedom from citizens it is eventually going to be done becasue murder crimes are really high and something drastic will have to be done to lower it.

 

[Fraggle Rocker]

This is a lost cause. Identity technology gets smaller, cheaper, faster, more powerful, and more widespread every year. I guarantee that you folks in your 40s will see the day when everyone carries a device, like today's cellphones or palm pilots only smaller, that will scan everybody around them and identify them by retina pattern and fingerprints, and with only a little more effort, DNA. This data will be so easy to collect and so impossible to thwart, that the worldwide database will have everyone on it by the time they are only a few days old, if that long.

That genie is out of the bottle. We can't stop it. We can drag our feet and slow it down but it won't make much difference.

 

[Prince_James]

Fraggle Rocker:

"This is a lost cause. Identity technology gets smaller, cheaper, faster, more powerful, and more widespread every year. I guarantee that you folks in your 40s will see the day when everyone carries a device, like today's cellphones or palm pilots only smaller, that will scan everybody around them and identify them by retina pattern and fingerprints, and with only a little more effort, DNA. This data will be so easy to collect and so impossible to thwart, that the worldwide database will have everyone on it by the time they are only a few days old, if that long."

Thankfully, with everything we do, it takes only -months- to crack them. To find ways to circumvent them, to bypass them, et cetera. Similarly, public opinion against such things can prevent their implementation outside of secuirity-sensitive institutions, such as bank and casino vaults, government and military security-zones, et cetera.

Ever notice how we don't employ even a fraction of the current security devices for personal use? Why? Because it is neither cost effective nor needed.