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Editorial
Nature 449, 377-378 (27 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449377b; Published online 26 September 2007
Genome abuse
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Abstract
Citizens are right to resist government pressure to expand population DNA databases.
Terrorism, crime and illegal immigration are fuelling state surveillance, and are being used to justify it to the public, who too often seem asleep to the risks of abuse. This is particularly true of national DNA databases, where in several countries there is an insidious creep to log not only serious offenders but also other classes of the population, such as immigrants and minor offenders.
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