Police used a baby’s DNA to investigate its father for a crime

Re:Police used a baby’s DNA to investigate its father for a ... by salawat on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:43PM (#32474363)

Law enforcement is using Third Party Doctrine and usage of non LE DNA databases to work around the requirement for probable cause. As I understand it, public health regulations are exacerbating the availability of this data by mandating submittal of DNA for screening, and retaining the data.

There is also the CSI effect to take into account and once again, the bloody fact we don't need to be preserving this data in perpetuity.

This is why Third Party Doctrine is a complete and total deconstruction of the 4th Amendment in practice.

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Re:Police used a baby’s DNA to investigate its father for a ... by asdff on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:38PM (#32475045)

It would be a huge scientific loss to discard collected genetic material. We should be cataloging all DNA that we can, not just from humans but from crops we grow and ecological marker species that proxy ecosystem health. You never know if there will be some test uncovered in the future that you could use against these previously collected samples and make some life saving inferences. When you throw that data away, you've eliminated that possibility forever and damned future scientists.

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