Would it be acceptable to have your DNA put on a secure data base at birth? or is this one step to far.?

Question

This would be a fantastic tool in the fight against crime, and if you havnt done anything wrong you dont have any worries. as long as it was guaranteed that the data would be secure and free from abuse, what are your thoughts

Answer 1

Would like to see Data base with three separate and protected functions: Used to verify missing person or as identity verification, to solve crimes and used to predict likely hood that some behavior will led to disease.

Answer 2

Everyone gets fixated on the crime issue of DNA data bases.

It could be a way of helping to save lives too.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

How naive people are to believe this. I bet when the Government told you CCTV would be in town centres you thought crime there would disappear. You sheeple know nothing.

The question is, what do you have to hide? Please post your personal details here including salary, address and bank account numbers. Thank you. Remember, "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" What? You're not going to? They are private? Then so are my personal details, all of them based upon a presumption of my innocence...unless you'd like to change the law regarding this.

Answer 5

Don't like the sound of that at all.  For one thing there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a secure data base in the UK!

Answer 6

I agree with Queenie. It's a slippery slope. True, if you're a good regular citizen, then what's the problem? But surly such records and information will evolve in to something else - probably something we cannot imagine yet at this time. People were suspicious and discontent with the idea of Social Security numbers too when they were first assigned. The Government went to some lengths to publish letters and articles explaining that the numbers would never be used for tracking people or for compiling an individual's history (other than work).. But that's exactly what it has evolved in to.

Answer 7

you asking for problems......what ever humans can do well they can equally c**k it up well...

Answer 8

This is a question similar to those that could be posed about communism...

They are both great ideas that would be very useful, equitable, prevent suffering etc IF and only if the administration of both systems could be trusted.  Unfortunately, neither are appropriate or realistic simply because no administration could be both responsible, independendant, democratic, trustworthy or beyond scrutiny.

Answer 9

Slippery slope to the end of personal freedom and the right to live your life in total anonymity if you so choose. Actually, pretty difficult to do that now, but this would finish it off. Plus, a certain Scandinavian nation tried this a few years ago, and was aborted when it became known that citizens private details (and DNA) would be sold to a private research company- who were no doubt hoping to profit handsomely from any knowledge gleaned and applied to treating a variety of human ills- with no compensation to those citizens who would be REQUIRED to submit to DNA testing. How'd you like them apples? Resist the urge to support such a dangerous notion! There is no such thing as 'secure' and 'free from abuse' where human greed is concerned. Oh, and I am a geneticist (PhD)...

Edit: in response to your comment (asker), you asked a general question about DNA testing at birth! Most countries already have laws in regard to criminals (pedophiles, rapists, etc) who should forfeit their right to DNA privacy (especially as many are recidivists). Let me say it again- it is already difficult to avoid being tracked through existing data gathering technologies, and I for one would resist any attempt to FORCE me to give DNA for a national database that would end up being used for anything- as I said there has already been one nation that tried to do and had to back off- they told their people it would help humanity, basically, but all h**l broke loose when it became known citizens private data would end up in the hands of private companies, with no scruples about how it would be abused.