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Re:EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Col... by remarkEon on Thursday February 19, 2015 @04:10PM (#9077069)
I think this is also a stretch. Fingerprint databases have existed for quite some time, and yet police are not required to get a warrant to check finger prints collected from a recovered weapon against that database, which can reveal quite a lot about the history of the person.
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Re:EFF to Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Covers DNA Col... by btilly on Friday February 20, 2015 @02:15PM (#9082276)
Fingerprints cannot tell you who a person is related to, or about their likely medical conditions. DNA can. (Though the limited set of markers used in police databases can't. But they also misuse those markers and overestimate the odds of a match. However that is a different and more complicated issue.)
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