We are losing it piece by piece.
Who would have thought the United States would
collect fingerprints from all citizens?
Collect biometric information from everyone...
law enforcement's Evil Holy Grail.
* "U.S. Has Plan to Broaden Availability tests of DNA Testing"
* By Fox Butterfield, The New York Times, undated but 1996 implied.
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* In a little known provision of the Clinton Administration's 1994 Crime
* Control Act was a call for the establishment of a nationwide DNA data
* bank like the current national system for fingerprints, run by the FBI.
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* In the two years since then, 42 states have passed laws requiring prison
* inmates give blood or saliva samples for a "DNA fingerprint."
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* In a report today, the Justice Department said it is stepping up efforts
* to make such DNA biometric capture "as common as fingerprinting" and that
* they expect the test in five years to go from $700 each to a mere $10 and
* take only hours or minutes to accomplish.
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Something odd is going on; apparently the government is building L.U.C.I.D.
# "Computer Enlisted in Drug War", By Sam Meddis, USA Today, 1/15/1990
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# A new FBI computer will monitor the activities of suspected drug peop