FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting

[TheCount]

The FBI has amassed 21.7 million DNA profiles — equivalent to about 7 percent of the U.S. population — according to Bureau data reviewed by The Intercept.

The FBI aims to nearly double its current $56.7 million budget for dealing with its DNA catalog with an additional $53.1 million, according to its budget request for fiscal year 2024. “The requested resources will allow the FBI to process the rapidly increasing number of DNA samples collected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,” the appeal for an increase says.

In an April 2023 statement submitted to Congress to explain the budget request, FBI Director Christopher Wray cited several factors that had “significantly expanded the DNA processing requirements of the FBI.” He said the FBI collected around 90,000 samples a month — “over 10 times the historical sample volume” — and expected that number to swell to about 120,000 a month, totaling about 1.5 million new DNA samples a year. (The FBI declined to comment.)

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/29/fbi-dna-collection-surveillance/


Of course, the usual bogeymen are deployed to justify and enable the program. First:

When CODIS was launched nationally, most states did not submit DNA from all people convicted of felonies; the only point of consensus among the states’ collection programs was to take DNA from convicted sex offenders.

Then:

In 2019, President Donald Trump’s administration ended the exemptions, and DHS announced that it would collect DNA samples from people arrested or detained by border authorities.
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President Joe Biden has not reversed the decision, causing the government’s DNA database to balloon in size.

Finally:

Today, police have the authority to take DNA samples from anyone sentenced for a felony charge. In 28 states, police can take DNA samples from suspects arrested for felonies but who have not been convicted of any crime. In some cases, police offer plea deals to reduce felony charges to misdemeanor offenses in exchange for DNA samples. Police are even acquiring DNA samples from unwitting people, as The Intercept recently reported.

“It changed massively,” Lewis said of the rules and regulations around government DNA collection. “You only have to be a person of interest to end up in these databases.”

A perfect example of the left, right, left, right march that expands government power. Each side adds more, neither takes away.

 

[acptulsa]

A perfect example of the left, right, left, right march that expands government power. Each side adds more, neither takes away.

Interesting how people can understand that, and even agree with it, but still can't quite seem to believe it.

 

[TheCount]

Interesting how people can understand that, and even agree with it, but still can't quite seem to believe it.

No one wants to reduce their own power when they're in charge.

 

[oyarde]

Pretty sure they have The Count and Danke but they dont have mine.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Doubtful the FBI has my DNA.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Interesting how people can understand that, and even agree with it, but still can't quite seem to believe it.

What's the plan to stop them from doing this?

 

[Occam's Banana]

What's the plan to stop them from doing this?

Someone needs to whip up a good SWLOD template - or maybe even an Internet petition.

I reckon that'll do until November of next year rolls around. <me: *cracks knuckles*>

 

[TheCount]

What's the plan to stop them from doing this?

Stop voting for people whose entire platform is promising to expand government power to hurt the people you don't like

 

[acptulsa]

What's the plan to stop them from doing this?

Getting away with what? The DNA collection? Or the thing I was talking about, where not one person holds the politicians of "their own" party accountable?

The second is the answer to the first. Unfortunately, the second question doesn't appear to have an answer.

Trumped up Trump and his trumped up charges, for example. One little step beyond the usual games, and suddenly it can't be a game any more.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Number sounds way too low. Is this the number of people that the FBI has exclusively?

No doubt they also have instant and unfettered access to all of the DNA profiles at the “private” companies such as Ancestry.com and 23&Me, and probably a plethora of DNA from health care, HMO, special genetic disease testing and treatment, various drug trials, etc.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Pretty sure they have The Count and Danke but they dont have mine.

The military ever take a blood sample?

 

[oyarde]

The military ever take a blood sample?

They do now , but not in my day . There wont be any more unknown soldiers . They have even removed some from the tomb of unknowns. I never even took the vaccinations I was supposed to have

 

[Occam's Banana]

Number sounds way too low. Is this the number of people that the FBI has exclusively?

No doubt they also have instant and unfettered access to all of the DNA profiles at the “private” companies such as Ancestry.com and 23&Me, and probably a plethora of DNA from health care, HMO, special genetic disease testing and treatment, various drug trials, etc.

Speaking of which:

THREAD: Your DNA is already in a database
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Your DNA is already in a database
Your genetic code is probably already in a database, without you ever giving a sample or permission.
https://odysee.com/@veritasium:f/your-dna-is-already-in-a-database:4