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[quote=Anonymous][quote]DNA lab pipette by U of Michigan credit.jpg
A pipette putting a drop in a vial in a lab setting
I have a friend who once, being recently divorced, lived by himself in a house in a mid-sized western city. One night a terrible crime took place: the house across the street from his was broken into, and the elderly woman who lived there was raped. In the course of the investigation, as a single man living near the woman, he came to the attention of the police. The traumatized victim told the police she was pretty sure he was not the perpetrator, but the police approached my friend and asked him to submit a DNA sample to eliminate him as a suspect. They told him they did not really think he was the perpetrator, but wanted to definitively eliminate him out of investigatory thoroughness and in order to reassure his neighbor.

How would you respond to such a request?[/quote]

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/police-want-your-dna-prove-youre-innocent-do-you-give-it-them

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[quote]As a privacy advocate, I really would not want to share my DNA with the police. They would likely retain it indefinitely, and possibly share it with other law enforcement agencies. I would henceforth be vulnerable to potential misuses of my DNA (just to pluck one potential scenario: to identify me should I mail an anonymous tip or complaint to a government agency). And, I would be much more likely to be mistakenly identified as a suspect, either through human error or just because every time the police run a criminal’s DNA profile I will now be part of the genetic “lineup.” A California man, for example, was wrongly charged with capital murder after his DNA was matched with samples taken at a crime scene (contaminated by the same paramedics who had treated him earlier in the day). That wouldn’t have happened if his DNA wasn’t in the database.[/quote][/quote]

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