DNA database
Google and Microsoft Want Your DNA
Submitted by MichaelVail on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 7:15pm.
According to consumer watchdog Privacy International, Google conducts "comprehensive surveillance" and embodies an "entrenched hostility to privacy." Microsoft, though a little less invasive, is still Microsoft. What do they have in common? Both want you to trust them with your DNA.
Presumed Guilty: Universal DNA database would make us all suspects
Submitted by MichaelVail on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 1:28pm.
Imagine being a potential suspect for every crime committed in your country. That would be the logic if DNA from all of a country's citizens were stored in police DNA records, claims a report published this week by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which advises the UK government.
All Your DNA Are Belong to Us: Criminal Justice in the Genetic Age
Submitted by MichaelVail on Wed, 07/25/2007 - 5:24pm.
What's the most significant impact of genetics in our lives?
Criminal justice, says Philip Reilly, a geneticist-attorney and former Interleukin CEO. Talking at the Jackson Labs today, he called forensic DNA "the single biggest change in the history of evidence in the last 100 years."
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