GATTACA.ZA - New DNA Bill

The problem with DNA (as illustrated by the movie named in the title of the thread), is that we can't help but leave it lying about everywhere we go. Unfortunately the only protection society has from people exploiting this to achieve Bad Ends is legislation.

If our laws are written with Big Data in mind (http://africa.comworldseries.com/bigdata-africa/) then I'm afraid we will be heading for a human-source-code free-for-all: the public domain source code of the human race, stored in the biggest proprietary black box yet devised for the purpose.
 
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I wonder what the local situation is?:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_bigbrother48.htm

"In April 2008, President Bush signed into law a bill which formerly announced the process that the federal government has been engaged in for years, screening the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months of birth.
Described as a “national contingency plan” the justification for the law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of “public health emergency.”
The bill states that the federal government should “continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening” and “maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening… ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the internet and is updated at least quarterly”.
Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests, both by the government and by researchers chosen to handle the DNA samples and the information that goes with them."
 
supersunbird said:
God people, they only index 20 or so markers from your DNA which has many many more markers and those 20 are enough to mark your as you.

Anything that helps the crime situation you guys seem to be opposed to, but bet you are first to moan about poor crime and conviction stats.
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It's all fun and games until someone gets falsely accused and convicted.
 
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