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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Attero Dominatus on April 21, 2008, 03:18:12 PM
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LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
Newborns' DNA targeted for state research, profiling
'What good is the privacy law if government warehouses data?'
Posted: April 19, 2008
12:10 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
The state of Minnesota has advanced a plan to own the DNA of newborns, preserving it in a warehouse for use in genetic research, experimentation, manipulation, and profiling, according to an advocacy organization seeking to protect the privacy of that individual information.
"Citizen DNA is citizen property. The government should be required to ask, not allowed to take," said Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council on Health Care, a Minnesota-based organization familiar with the progress in that state.
"If this bill becomes law, each year 73,000 newborn citizens will not be protected by the state genetic privacy law. The [state] will take their DNA and unless the parents figure it out, the government will keep it," she said.
"Children grow up. Eventually, every citizen will have their DNA owned by state government and available for government to engage in genetic research, experimentation, manipulation, and profiling," she warned. "What good is the state genetic privacy law if government warehousing and analysis of every child's DNA from birth is exempt from its informed consent protections?"
more: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61984
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:ohnoes:
The government already has my DNA on file. I haven't dissapeared into the night. :whatever:
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That is kind of scary if you think about it.