privacy

If your DNA has not made it's way into a state database like the rapidly growing CODIS, AND you haven't ever sent your DNA to one of those stupid ancestry honeypots like 23&Me, then you need to hold on to your non compromised status for dear life.

Do whatever you can to keep it from getting into these databases. DNA is the most dangerous information of all for a state to have, because you can never change it.

You can technically alter your fingerprints, face, and even rip your own eyeballs out I suppose. But DNA? You're cooked.
 
Who knows what the state will be doing with that kind of information in 10 years, 20 years?

Keeping your DNA to yourself might be the difference between living and dying, or freedom and slavery. 

One way to do this is try to avoid felony arrests at all costs, because innocent until proven guilty isn't really a thing anymore and they can force you to give a DNA sample after any felony arrest in most states in the USA. Doesn't even matter if your alleged crime had a victim or not.

And for the love of God don't send your DNA in to a tech start up.

Happy Halloween!

If your DNA has not made it's way into a state database like the rapidly growing CODIS, AND you haven't ever sent your DNA to one of those stupid ancestry honeypots like 23&Me, then you need to hold on to your non compromised status for dear life.

Do whatever you can to keep it from getting into these databases. DNA is the most dangerous information of all for a state to have, because you can never change it.

You can technically alter your fingerprints, face, and even rip your own eyeballs out I suppose. But DNA? You're cooked.
 
Who knows what the state will be doing with that kind of information in 10 years, 20 years?

Keeping your DNA to yourself might be the difference between living and dying, or freedom and slavery. 

One way to do this is try to avoid felony arrests at all costs, because innocent until proven guilty isn't really a thing anymore and they can force you to give a DNA sample after any felony arrest in most states in the USA. Doesn't even matter if your alleged crime had a victim or not.

And for the love of God don't send your DNA in to a tech start up.

Happy Halloween!

https://reason.com/2025/09/26/dhs-collected-dna-from-2000-u-s-citizens-without-due-process-its-now-in-a-law-enforcement-database/