HOMELAND SECURITY TO START COLLECTING DNA FROM LITTLE KIDS
Documents just released in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests show that DHS is considering collecting DNA from kids ages 14 and up—and is exploring expanding its regulations to allow collection from kids younger than that.
The DHS effort to target children reveals that the government has ambitiously stepped up efforts to DNA profile the populace and will continue to introduce new technology designed to add millions of profiles to the government’s databases. DNA profiles are a critical component in the global elite’s emerging surveillance and ultimately its control grid. DNA profiles compliment efforts by the NSA and other agencies to track and trace us through electronic communication and create comprehensive dossiers of our medical and bank records in an effort to conduct surveillance of all aspects of our personal lives. DHS estimates that as many as 1 million people who are subject to administrative detention or arrest annually could now be subject to DNA collection. But it’s important to note that many of these people are not involved in criminal activity. Collecting DNA from anyone detained by the government for any number of non-criminal reasons—especially juveniles—seems to be yet another step on the slippery slope to collecting DNA from everyone in the United States, no matter their status. In California a ballot measure passed in 2004 requires police to take DNA samples of everyone who is arrested on a felony charge. And if you are one of the 100,000 people in California who is arrested for a crime and later cleared, or arrested and never charged, you're out of luck because your DNA information will be in the police database forever. And yesterday the courts reaffirmed that position.
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Documents just released in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests show that DHS is considering collecting DNA from kids ages 14 and up—and is exploring expanding its regulations to allow collection from kids younger than that. The DHS effort to target children reveals that the government has ambitiously stepped up efforts to DNA profile the populace and will continue to introduce new technology designed to add millions of profiles to the government’s databases. DNA profiles are a critical component in the global elite’s emerging surveillance and ultimately its control grid. DNA profiles compliment efforts by the NSA and other agencies to track and trace us through electronic communication and create comprehensive dossiers of our medical and bank records in an effort to conduct surveillance of all aspects of our personal lives. DHS estimates that as many as 1 million people who are subject to administrative detention or arrest annually could now be subject to DNA collection. But it’s important to note that many of these people are not involved in criminal activity. Collecting DNA from anyone detained by the government for any number of non-criminal reasons—especially juveniles—seems to be yet another step on the slippery slope to collecting DNA from everyone in the United States, no matter their status. In California a ballot measure passed in 2004 requires police to take DNA samples of everyone who is arrested on a felony charge. And if you are one of the 100,000 people in California who is arrested for a crime and later cleared, or arrested and never charged, you're out of luck because your DNA information will be in the police database forever. And yesterday the courts reaffirmed that position.
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