On Jun 3 2013 2:27 PM, risky biz wrote:
> If you don't like it don't get arrested for a good reason.
C'mon risky, you know better than that � particularly in this day and age.
Look at the direction this country is headed � the federal government is
collecting and storing as much information as they can on every single
person in this country, recording every phone call, email, and text
message. The control of data and information is being centralized at the
federal level under the guise of many different straw-boogeymen, be it
terrorism, health care "reform," money-laundering prevention... Think
through the eventual consequences of all of this.
Let's say your DNA contains certain genetic markers that are believed to
be indications that you will eventually come down with some sort of
chronic or fatal disease. You're picked up by the police for any one of a
litany of minor offenses, and your DNA is swabbed. Now given the
centralization of law enforcement records (Patriot Act) and health care
data (Obamacare), there's an awfully good chance that your insurance
company has access to this datapoint, as it's part of your "profile" as
maintained by any number of federal databases. How do you rate your
chances of maintaining your health insurance in this kind of scenario?
I can think of countless ways something like a comprehensive DNA database
could be abused/misused, just off the top of my head. I'm all in favor of
the government having as little information on its citizens as possible.
It's proven to be a malicious actor with an insatiable appetite for
information on its subjects. This needs to be stopped NOW.
Now this many not happen tomorrow, or 2 years from now... But 10? 20?
You'd better believe this kind of shit has been in the works for decades,
and it'll get done eventually. Mark my words.