ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows
In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people with no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) collected DNA samples from nearly one million individuals, including young children, in the past year, according to WIRED's Dhruv Mehrotra. This action has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people, regardless of their criminal convictions, being entered into an FBI criminal database indefinitely.
The Department of Homeland Security has become the largest source of new profiles in this database. Internal training materials reveal that asylum seekers and refugees, even those without criminal convictions, are subjected to DNA sampling, whether or not they have adjusted their immigration status. This practice has garnered criticism from lawmakers, who argue that these individuals do not belong in databases meant for violent criminals, especially children.
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