ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
250 points by BlueBerry2001 79 days ago www.wired.com 110 comments

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ICE has dramatically increased its DNA collection efforts, leading to the inclusion of hundreds of thousands of individuals, including children, in an FBI database without any criminal convictions. This raises significant concerns about privacy and the long-term implications of such data retention.

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