Apparently there is some sort of movement afoot, which is causing the usual suspects to engage in Orwell-invoking alarmism but I really don’t see what the big deal is

The government already knows plenty about us.  They’ve got databases of our pictures (the DMV).  Databases of our financial lives (the IRS).  Databases of personal identifiers (the FBI fingerprints database).  Databases of our address histories (voter registrations, etc.).  So what’s DNA on top of that?

Just because they have it doesn’t mean they’ll use it for some Brave New World type of eugenics scheme, and on top of what they already have it’s really not much more

The time for privacy alarmism has come and gone.  There’s no need to fight Big Brother because Big Brother is already here

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