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- Unless ICE was also collecting young children, it should say: "... including that of young children".
- This behavior will continue until an actual consequence is introduced.by lenerdenator
- There’s a reason why Germany has extremely strict laws about how personally identifying information can be collected and stored.
America has yet to learn the same lesson, but has been on the road there for a decade now.
by pavlov - Framing things as protecting children from predators, corporations, governments, etc... seems to always be the justification given for and against any measure directed at them. Child trafficking is real. Governments are already moving toward age verification online. Most people seem to legitimately only care about privacy or children's protection when it serves as a bludgeoning tool for "their team." Consider me sufficiently jaded on this issue.by andrewclunn
- > Agency spreadsheets Georgetown obtained and analyzed show it sent the FBI the DNA of at least 1.36 million people between October 2020 and the end of 2024, more than a dozen times ICE's rate during the same time period.
So at the same time we saw a mass increase in border crossings we were also collecting their DNA? That's a huge number.
by aliasxneo - IF there was a secure and trustable way that a trusted government could retain DNA information, then I feel like people having a DNA test at birth or on becoming a citizen could be useful, both medically ("your sample indicates you may have a higher risk of dementia") and from a policing standpoint ("we found DNA on this woman's clothes and immediately matched it to this man who hasn't committed a crime before" or "we were able to identify this john doe because their DNA was on record"). However, given that companies and governments are awful, I don't think it could ever actually work in practice :/by voidUpdate