[privacy] States Hand Over the DNA of Newborns to DHS

[Richard M. Smith]

The IRS and the phone company has been harvesting DNA for even longer.  DNA
can be obtained from a licked stamp or envelope flap! How do we know that
our DNA hasn't been added to a database using our mailed in tax returns and
monthly phone bills. ;-)

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawg at netzero.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:21 PM
To: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: [privacy] States Hand Over the DNA of Newborns to DHS

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Via Personal Health Information Privacy.

[snip]

Unknown to most new parents, or those who became parents in the last ten or
so years, DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored and
experimented with by all 50 states. And all 50 states are now routinely
providing these results to the Homeland Security Department.

No doubt we can all see the benefits in testing for genetic disorders or
genetic traits and tendencies that could be more adequately dealt with, in
some cases actually deterring the onset of life-time illness, but that
seems not to be the real thrust of these programs. It may have been
initially...but not now.

As with all good things, there are always those who seek the more evil
path, in essence turning what should have been a life saving tool, a
preventative measure into something insidious and inhumane. This is what
has happened to this national effort.

[snip]

More:
http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=130

- - ferg

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