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B.C. police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder (bc.ctvnews.ca)

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B.C. police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder::Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal.

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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If your definition of privacy is "Information that cannot be obtained", you have a shit definition of privacy.

Privacy is a legal issue. Nobody should be keeping records of our DNA, or any other information, regardless of how easy that information is to acquire.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 10 months ago

at no point did i say it should not be regulated in use.

its like getting pissed when your exact image is captured on camera. it it illegal? mostly, no. can it be? yep, depends.