Mastodawn

The unchecked DNA collection “puts you and your family in a surveillance state database of people who have criticized this administration,” Dunne alleged, while suggesting that on an “authoritarian scale of one to 10, this is a 10.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ice-protesters-sue-to-stop-dhs-from-seizing-dna-samples/

#Policy #DepartmentofHomelandSecurity #DHS #DNA #dnadatabase #dnasamples #fbi #immigrationandcustomsenforcement

DHS can’t create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, lawsuit says

Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance machine.

Ars Technica

Global News Regina Mar 30

DNA database applauded for arrest in 2001 sexual assault case: Saskatoon police
Saskatoon police charged Lambert Scott, a 52-year-old man, in relation to a 24-year-old sexual assault case via a match in the national DNA data bank.
#Crime #SaskatoonPolice #Saskatoonsexualassault
https://globalnews.ca/news/11748753/dna-saskatoon-sexual-assault-suspect/

Global News Saskatoon Mar 30

DNA database applauded for arrest in 2001 sexual assault case: Saskatoon police
Saskatoon police charged Lambert Scott, a 52-year-old man, in relation to a 24-year-old sexual assault case via a match in the national DNA data bank.
#Crime #SaskatoonPolice #Saskatoonsexualassault
https://globalnews.ca/news/11748753/dna-saskatoon-sexual-assault-suspect/

Global News Mar 27

DNA database applauded for arrest in 2001 sexual assault case: Saskatoon police
Saskatoon police charged Lambert Scott, a 52-year-old man, in relation to a 24-year-old sexual assault case via a match in the national DNA data bank.
#Crime #SaskatoonPolice #Saskatoonsexualassault
https://globalnews.ca/news/11748753/dna-saskatoon-sexual-assault-suspect/

US news | The Guardian Oct 3, 2025

Break in 1991 Texas yoghurt shop murders sparks hope for cold cases: ‘There are other victims out there’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/texas-yoghurt-shop-murders-dna-testing #DNAdatabase #Guncrime #UScrime #Austin #USnews #Texas

Break in 1991 Texas yoghurt shop murders sparks hope for cold cases: ‘There are other victims out there’

Advances in DNA testing led to a suspect in the deaths of four girls. Can lab results now link a serial killer to other violent crimes?

The Guardian

Technology | The Guardian US Sep 24, 2025

US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/23/us-border-patrol-dna-data #USimmigration #DNAdatabase #Technology #Privacy #USnews

US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows

CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows

The Guardian

Science | The Guardian Apr 5, 2025

Genetic data is an another asset to be exploited – beware who has yours | John Naughton https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/05/genetic-data-breach-23andme-bankruptcy #Dataprotection #DNAdatabase #Technology #Genetics #Politics #Science #Biology

Genetic data is another asset to be exploited – beware who has yours

The bankruptcy of genealogy company 23andMe has resulted in a fire sale of millions of people’s genetic information – and there’s no shortage of eager buyers with questionable motives

The Guardian

Rico_Roswall Apr 28, 2023

Efterforskninger går kun udover de skyldige hørte jeg fra en deltager i P1 Debat.

Tak for at være med til at nuancere debatten, @RasmusMalver 👍.

#dkpol #dkret #overvågning #DNAregister #DNAdatabase #slægtsforskning #glidebane #efterforskning #varetægtsfængsling #mistænkt #uskyldig #mistænkeliggørelse
https://www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/p1-debat/p1-debat-2023-04-28

P1 Debat | Match en morder? | DR LYD

DNA kombineret med en helt særlig slægtforskningsmetode kan helt fri os fra de værste seriemordere og måske også løse uopklarede mordgåder. Derfor har en dansk drabsefterforsker stillet et lovforslag, der går ud på, at dansk politi skal kunne bruge metoden. Skal politiet have flere beføjelser i kampen mod drab, voldtægt og terror eller er forslaget en glidebane, der sætter samtykke og persondata over styr? Du kan blande dig i debatten ved at ringe på 7021 1919. Gæster: Anders Kjærulff, journalist, Zenia Stampe, retsordfører (RV), Martin Wittrup Enggaard, drabsefterforsker og stiller af borgerforslag, Mai Mercado, retsordfører (K), Peter Skaarup, retsordfører (DD), Rasmus Malver, menneskeretsjurist og Bjørn Brandenborg, retsordfører (S). Vært: Cecilie Lange.

Netherlands eScience Center Dec 21, 2022

Exciting news! The ARISE Biocloud team organized a hackathon to develop a prototype DNA database for their biodiversity platform. With this tool, it will be easy to access and manage genetic data for various species. #DNAdatabase

Building a DNA database prototype

Once Arise is running, it will be easy to ask it things like “Show me a list of all species of butterflies for which we have barcodes from Dutch specimens . And all those barcodes, please.”

Arise

The Guardian Feb 25, 2020

Forensic science failures putting justice at risk, says regulator https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/25/forensic-science-failures-putting-justice-at-risk-says-regulator #Guardian #news #Sciencefundingcrisis #UKcriminaljustice #Forensicscience #Sciencepolicy #DNAdatabase #Politics #Science #UKnews #Police #Wales #Law

Forensic science failures putting justice at risk, says regulator

System on a ‘knife-edge’ due to skills shortages and funding cuts in England and Wales