After a Trump-era expansion of DNA collection, immigration officials are apparently funneling 1 million samples a year into the national crime database.
… that’s probably unwise. Since we got it though, that’s a pretty huge data set that could probably assist in some useful research, if they wanted to anonymize it and give it to scientists. Or they could just keep it for themselves I suppose, until it reveals new uses.
… that’s probably unwise. Since we got it though, that’s a pretty huge data set that could probably assist in some useful research, if they wanted to anonymize it and give it to scientists. Or they could just keep it for themselves I suppose, until it reveals new uses.
On one hand, yeah, on the other, you want to discourage people from doing this stuff then saying “welllllll, as long as we’ve already got it…”