{
  "id": 232432,
  "title": "ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/ices-dna-collection-increases-spacexs-rocket-crashes-into-the-moon",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-06T19:30:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired Business",
    "slug": "wired-business",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/ice-dna-collection-increases-spacex-rocket-crashes-into-the-moon-and-the-ai-backlash-grows/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [
    "ICE collected DNA from nearly one million individuals in the past year.",
    "Asylum seekers and refugees subject to DNA sampling, including those without criminal convictions.",
    "Critics argue DNA sampling for asylum seekers and refugees is inappropriate."
  ],
  "editors_take": "ICE's expanded DNA collection puts hundreds of thousands of people, including children and asylum seekers, into a criminal database indefinitely, drawing criticism from lawmakers.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Wired",
        "title": "ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/ices-dna-collection-increases-spacexs-rocket-crashes-into-the-moon-233901",
        "published": "2026-08-06T19:30:46.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}