August 02, 2007

the database state creeps onward

The police want to be able to demand DNA on the streets for non-arrestable offenses, not that there are many of those left, putting yet more non-criminals onto their database. Later found to be completely innocent? Tough, all your DNA is belong to them as the saying goes. Not just DNA, photographs, fingerprints, even footwear impressions for such heinous crimes as littering.

What could the police be doing while measuring your inside leg for their records? Well it probably wouldn't be catching thieves, merely damaging somebody's livelihood potentially driving them out of business and resulting in the people they employ being out of work isn't as bad a crime as littering.

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