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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by djsumdog on Friday February 01, 2019 @09:29PM (#19060630)
The UK takes DNA samples of every person arrested. There it's controlled by the government. In the US, it's held privately. Both situations are disturbing.
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Re:One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Worki... by phishfi on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:37PM (#19060869)
The US also takes DNA and prints from arrestees and maintains it in a federal database (CODIS for DNA, FBI for prints).
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