Another Reason Not to Move to the UK
 

(not that I was in any danger of that anyway)

DNA database 'should include all'

I do not quite know why you think you COULD move to the United Kingdom anyway , Wolf ?

What skills do you have ?

Why is this a bad thing? I think it's a long overdue improvement over fingerprinting (which should be a national database including everyone). Lets not get into conspiracy theory bullshit on this one though, it's an IDENTIFIER.

If I leave my DNA someplace, and a crime is committed there later by someone else, then I will be an instant suspect. At a minimum, that will be a hassle for me.

HORSESHIT!

You said it better than I did.

They would be able to tell you had been there, but unless it's somewhere where you either shouldn't have been or very few other people had been I don't think you'd have to worry about being hassled. Logistics alone probably guarantees that they won't put every person who leaves their DNA in a public place through the rigmorol of official suspect-hood.

Care to explain why LJ?

Not sure where I stand on this one, but think I'm with 9th Engineer.

Why would it be any different than your fingerprints being found at a crimescene? Unless you specifically denied being there and had some other tie to the crime I can't see you'd have anything to worry about. If you are convicted on that evidence alone then it's the justice system you need to worry about, not the method for obtaining evidence.

In a perfect world, this would be a good idea. But how hard would it be for someone to get a sample of someone else's DNA (blood, urine, sperm, etc.) and leave it at a crime scene?

I begin to see the difference between subject and citizen.

You know, this is just to get people used to the idea, because they think it is somehow reasonable or helpful ... like EZPass and OnStar with the locator transponders ...

I'm not a real doctor, but I do have a Master's Degree.

My fingerprints aren't in any databases. So they can't find me even if I leave fingerprints for them. They can only use the fingerprints to match me after they find me by other means.

Having my fingerprints in a database or my dna in a database makes it too easy for the government to track me.

I have a right to privacy.

Have you seen the justice system in action? I am worried about it. The government's job is to send people to jail when it is able to, not to send the right people to jail. They assume the court and jury will sort it all out. I'd rather not find myself relying on a court and jury in the first place.

Sunday Girl, how can you be in favor of having your DNA in a government crime database and also make this post in another thread?

Don't you see that both are an invasion of privacy?

@sundae girl

I was just reading the european hijacking thread and you were saying you didn't want to be on CCTV.

But you think it is OK for mandatory dna sampling?

Aren't these viewpoints contradictory?