Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter

Re:Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter by GunlogAlm on Saturday January 24, 2015 @10:11AM (#8939743)

> every newborn's DNA is stored digitally

What?

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Re:Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter by desdiv on Sunday January 25, 2015 @02:40AM (#8942343)

He probably mixed up several facts:

1. This practice is not done anywhere in the EU AFAIK, only in the US.

2. Only the biological DNA sample is kept, not any digital version of it. It would obviously be cost-prohibitive to fully sequence the gnome of every single newborn baby.

But other than that, he's right. DNA samples of every newborn baby in the US is indeed being kept by the government, indefinitely and without parental consent.

https://www.aclu.org/free-speech-technology-and-liberty-wome...

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Re:Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop the Snooper's Charter by nthcolumn on Monday January 26, 2015 @02:58PM (#8949205)

Since when was cost a factor? Try storing everyones' phone calls! Each person can fit on a 750M CD. It may be true that they haven't gotten through sequencing them all yet. Genomics England and Illumina (US) are the contractors. PM David Cameron is particularly keen, recently gave them £300 million. He wants everyone tagged 'within a generation'. And yes you can all ignore me and downvote me because it makes no difference. UK, US, Australia all the same. With your DNA on file - you are an open book.

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