WaPo: You need a good reason to curb privacy. None exists for collecting DNA at the border.

WaPo: Editorial Board: You need a good reason to curb privacy. None exists for collecting DNA at the border.

NEWS THIS MONTH that the U.S. government would start collecting DNA from people detained at the border seemed to sketch out a picture of dystopia: citizens, green-card holders and immigrants, including asylum-seekers, all required to hand over their most intimate identifying information to be shipped off to a massive FBI-run criminal database. The reality isn’t quite so dire, but it’s still far from rosy.

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