Submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
B.C. police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder::Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal.
I wouldn’t care if someone did a racial scan to a group involving me to find a murderer of a 13 year old. Fuck child murderers.
Maybe you don’t like your privacy being violated but the rest of us do
i get that you think your dna is private. really, i do.
but you broadcast it 24/7. it is only a matter of time until the entire planet is easily mapped genetically. we're half way there now, and a huge chunk of those people 'did not opt in'. a human can be mapped in minutes, if not seconds.
you send your genetic code out into the open 24 hours a day 7 days a week in every space you occupy and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
i understand not wanting that information used against you, hence all the genetic laws.... but it is public. your dna is not going to be some secret you get to keep in perpetuity any more than your hair color or marital status.
I hope they atleast got a warrant to run the operation and have protocols to destroy genetic details unconnected to the case after its done.
The part these crusaders don’t understand is that such a plan was bold, rare, and signed-off by a judge after some debate.
Painting is as 4 rogue cops in a sea of comicbook-villian cops sure is neat for the homeroom edge lords, though.
Was it?
It’s not clear if a warrant was sought or obtained, and police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I really don’t know what to think of it overall. Obviously I’m happy they were able to eventually identify and convict someone who raped and murdered a child. The way they went about the large sweep was deceptive, but if there’s a warrant and supervision and protections in place for the innocent people who had no connection to the crime maybe it’s okay. I know I’d be feeling deceived and probably a little violated if I was one of the innocent people who was caught in the sweep, though.
If they randomly decided on checking the Kurdish community for a suspect then it might be more questionable but they had DNA from sperm found in the dead body of a 13 year old that matched markers found in Kurdish people.
I’m more surprised that they didn’t find that the DNA had matches to the victim since they were siblings but they didn’t mention anything about that in the article.
tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do they destroy they record of not-guilty people’s DNA?
xor@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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