The technology is advancing.
In this day and age, we are limited only by the extent of our imagination. Our tools will create that of which we dream.
We will be protected from pernicious use of this only by the procedural rules we put in place...and by how well we adhere to those rules.
The US Constitution has checks and balances to rein in the natural desire of rulers to tend towards tyranny. These checks have been eroded. Grabbing a tossed out bottle from a targeted suspect, swabbing it for DNA, and then convicting that person, seems to violate the Search and Seizure clause. That barrier has been broken by a weak-willed judiciary.
I am not confident that more, and worse, intrusions will occur now that multiple DNA databases are proliferating.
Minority Report was closer to truth than fiction.
In this day and age, we are limited only by the extent of our imagination. Our tools will create that of which we dream.
We will be protected from pernicious use of this only by the procedural rules we put in place...and by how well we adhere to those rules.
The US Constitution has checks and balances to rein in the natural desire of rulers to tend towards tyranny. These checks have been eroded. Grabbing a tossed out bottle from a targeted suspect, swabbing it for DNA, and then convicting that person, seems to violate the Search and Seizure clause. That barrier has been broken by a weak-willed judiciary.
I am not confident that more, and worse, intrusions will occur now that multiple DNA databases are proliferating.
Minority Report was closer to truth than fiction.