-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:07:00PM -0400, David Honig wrote:
At 09:14 PM 10/16/00 -0400, Nathan Saper wrote:
When do cops take DNA at traffic stops?
Not yet. But I believe the UK takes samples of everyone arrested (not necessarily guilty) of minor crimes, and some US states and cities do or periodically propose doing this or more.
The next question is: What do they do with this info? Insurance companies and the like use it to justify discrimination against people likely to develop certain medical conditions. The point is, the government is being used to do corporations' dirty work. And I'm much less afraid of a government that is (in theory, if not always in practice) somewhat connected to the people (representatives want to get reelected, after all) than I am a corporation that can do basically whatever the fuck it wants, with little or no hope of punishment. - -- Nathan Saper (natedog@well.com) | http://www.well.com/user/natedog/ GnuPG (ElGamal/DSA): 0x9AD0F382 | PGP 2.x (RSA): 0x386C4B91 Standard PGP & PGP/MIME OK | AOL Instant Messenger: linuxfu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE57PPP2FWyBZrQ84IRAlgSAKCyD7GGCC/2RupKxBhl+gVmppuvBQCgmWLe pAB0z0W6oYNvFnmnUyGFT3U= =PzA3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----