I don’t mind being fingerprinted. When it comes to the essence of who I am, that’s proprietary information.
Who owns your DNA? You or the government?
Whose to say this sample couldn’t be stored and used as a massive gene pool? Once they have it, they can replicate it and use it without your permission.
Now all you folks who think they’ll just keep a computer file, you’re the same folks that whine when you find out government agencies are misusing your private communications.
Why would you ever sign off to someone other than yourself owning a sample of your DNA?
If someone wants to pay me for an aspect of my DNA, then it’s mine to determine what and how much? If they have a sample for free, what stops them from doing anything they want with it?
Well..., nothing actually. Go ahead, sign off on the Obama administration and it’s flying monkeys having your essence to spread around.
Leave mine the F alone.
Agree with all you say. ;-)
So far they don’t record every element of your personal genome ~ just enough to ID you ~ someday they’ll be able to recreate your persona from your DNA, interrogate your replicant, then execute you ~ probably a lot sooner than is comfortable, but that’s not what they are doing.