ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas wrote: “To solve rapes and murders? Sounds great, right? Not so fast. Suppose your 3rd cousin, that you didn’t know existed, was accused of rape, police took a dna sample, and you got a dna kit as a birthday present. Yes, I think there are good people working for the FBI. But do you trust the FBI as an entity?”
Suppose your sister was the one raped...
Suppose the DNA samples led to the arrest of a serial killer.
Tradeoff, tradeoffs, tradeoffs.
Well said.
“Suppose your sister was the one raped...
Suppose the DNA samples led to the arrest of a serial killer.
Tradeoff, tradeoffs, tradeoffs.”
Would you be singing about tradeoffs if you were the poor SOB locked up for something you absolutely didn’t do?
Catching a serial killer, in itself, is a good thing. The state knowing everything about everybody, not so much. After 9/11 the deep state got congress to authorize mass spying. And now they use it for political power.
“led to the arrest “
The problem is when it leads to the arrest and conviction of someone innocent.
That has happened.
Once you give up data, there’s no way to seal it up. For every virtuous cure they can do, they have 99 other nasty surprises you din’t anticipate. I like the concept but there are no safeguards to your privacy which can be devastating to your progeny from now on.
I can’t believe you’re considering that an equal trade off. Very naive.