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[privacy] States Hand Over the DNA of Newborns to DHS
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:21:28 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Personal Health Information Privacy. [snip] Unknown to most new parents, or those who became parents in the last ten or so years, DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored and experimented with by all 50 states. And all 50 states are now routinely providing these results to the Homeland Security Department. No doubt we can all see the benefits in testing for genetic disorders or genetic traits and tendencies that could be more adequately dealt with, in some cases actually deterring the onset of life-time illness, but that seems not to be the real thrust of these programs. It may have been initially...but not now. As with all good things, there are always those who seek the more evil path, in essence turning what should have been a life saving tool, a preventative measure into something insidious and inhumane. This is what has happened to this national effort. [snip] More: http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=130 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFH4XXFq1pz9mNUZTMRAitmAKDrlj3LKjh7/cog0fj6B65EzBcc9gCgk2l7 bXRO7CtNKuqybGPo0n38LTM= =2TO7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] States Hand Over the DNA of Newborns to DHS Paul Ferguson (Mar 19)
- Re: [privacy] States Hand Over the DNA of Newborns to DHS Richard M. Smith (Mar 19)
- Re: [privacy] States Hand Over the DNA of Newborns to DHS Dennis Henderson (Mar 19)
- Re: [privacy] States Hand Over the DNA of Newborns to DHS Richard M. Smith (Mar 19)