{"id":394041,"date":"2019-01-24T19:52:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uncle-sam-wants-your-dna\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T19:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:52:59","slug":"uncle-sam-wants-your-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uncle-sam-wants-your-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cAs more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even more importantly, they could decipher the deep mechanisms of all bodies and brains, and thereby gain the power to engineer life. If we want to prevent a small elite from monopolising such godlike powers, and if we want to prevent humankind from splitting into biological castes, the key question is: who owns the data?\u00a0Does the data about my DNA, my brain and my life belong to me, to the government, to a corporation, or to the human collective?<\/a>\u201d\u2015Professor Yuval Noah Harari<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Uncle Sam wants you.<\/p>\n

Correction: Uncle Sam wants your DNA.<\/p>\n

Actually, if the government gets its hands on your DNA, they as good as have you in their clutches.<\/p>\n

Get ready, folks, because the government\u2014 helped along by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed\u00a0the Rapid DNA Act<\/a>\u00a0into law), the courts (which have\u00a0ruled<\/a>\u00a0that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget)\u2014is\u00a0embarking on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>:
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\u201cAs more and more data flows from your body and brain to the smart machines via the biometric sensors, it will become easy for corporations and government agencies to know you, manipulate you, and make decisions on your behalf. Even more importantly, they could decipher the deep mechanisms of all bodies and brains, and thereby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}