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...refuse and the suspicion that would be raised if they did. It's a problem that is becoming more and more familiar--and, for civil libertarians, cause for more and more alarm. "These are technologies in which powerful organs in society control members with less power," frets Philip Bereano, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union's board of directors. "They are inherently violative of civil rights...
...decline, but as residents of Lawrence, Mass., are learning, no law can prevent the slit-eyed look police give a person who actually chooses to exercise that right. "There is no such thing as a technology like this without an ideology of surveillance and control behind it," says Bereano...
...problem for Bereano and other detractors is that DNA technology works. In England as many as 500 matches are made a week between database entries and samples taken from crime scenes. When mass sweeps are conducted, the police claim a 70% success rate in cracking the crime they're investigating. In the U.S., where the months-old national database has barely got on its feet, the FBI claims that 200 outstanding cases have already been solved. What's more, on occasion, DNA sampling benefits not only the people investigating crimes but also the people convicted of them. Since...
...commit? Is it possible to fix such miswired genes, and if so, should you try? The possibility of mucking about with such fundamental genetic coding gives a lot of people existential shivers--and it should. "This is the kind of technology that would flourish in an Orwellian society," says Bereano...
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