How Police Hoard Our DNA in Rogue Databases
Over more than a decade, the NYPD has collected the genetic material of 34,000 people – generally without their consent – in its rogue, illegal DNA database. The people ensnared in this database are often innocent, never charged with or convicted of a crime. And as technology advances, there’s no telling what law enforcement will be able to know about people whose DNA is swept up in these kinds of databases. How does the NYPD get away with this? What are the dangers of DNA databases, and what can we do to reign them in?
On this episode we speak with Professor Erin Murphy who has literally…
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