The game-changing technology of Rapid DNA, a process of collecting DNA and identifying an individual in less than two hours, is being utilized by a growing number of law enforcement agencies across the country, but the testing tool has fueled privacy concerns and potential for misuse, The New York Times reports.
Following passage of the Rapid DNA Act in 2017, law enforcement agencies were allowed to start performing real-time DNA testing at their own booking stations after a suspect was arrested. The previous process involved sending DNA samples to government labs and waiting days, or weeks, for results.
The samples are now instantaneously compared to profiles in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).
In Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Detective Vandegrift called the technology, "groundbreaking," and members of the Rapid DNA team in the Orange County, California, district attorney's office said some robbers were identified "so quickly that they were caught still holding stolen goods," per the Times.
Still, the process is being questioned...
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technolgy is here and the mindset is open to it.DNA GPS COMPUTERS DRONES PATRIOT ACT..all the pieces are coming together..just need to get rid of those pesky guns..
ReplyDeleteAnd that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
For the cautious ones who haven't sent their DNA to whomever, there will soon be laws to collect your DNA (such as when you renew your license, or apply for a business permit, or when you open a bank account).
ReplyDeleteYou keep cheering???
Unreal.