According to the April 18 The New York Times, the Federal Bureau of Investigation hopes to increase its 6.7 million DNA profile data base to 1.2 million new entries per year by 2012. That’s a lot of data on a lot of people. How do they propose to accomplish this?
Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts. But starting this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will join 15 states that collect DNA samples from those awaiting trial and will collect DNA from detained immigrants — the vanguard of a growing class of genetic registrants.
Scary.
