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# DNA Collection
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Consider a recent article from the EFF [regarding "Rapid DNA Analyzers"][0].
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The article poses the potetial issues involved, but also consider that any DNA
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collected (if not destroyed) would violate not just your privacy, but your
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entire blood line. What if DNA from immigrants were collected? Much of that
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information is inherited, so generations down the line, your privacy is still
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violated.
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[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/rapid-dna-analysis
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I cannot comment intelligently on the matter since I haven't read deeply enough
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into the proposed storage/hashing/etc policies, but those polices can be abused
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and such data can be leaked. I highly oppose any sort of DNA collection outside
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of personal at-home use (when the technology is available with free software)
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and use by medical professionals for personal medical reasons so long as the
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institution performing the test can provide stringent evidence of its
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destruction. But even then, if law enforcement somehow got a hold of the DNA
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before it were destroyed, then the problem still exists, so it would be best if
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you had your own personal tools to analyze your own DNA and distribute only the
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portions that were required (and encryption tools like [GPG][1] could be used
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for distribution).
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One day, but not now. Let's make those scanners affordable and run free
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software.
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[1]: http://www.gnupg.org/
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