U.S., FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting
U.S., FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting
The FBI wants to double its budget for cataloging “the rapidly increasing number of DNA samples collected by the U.S.”
In an April 2023 statement submitted to the U.S. 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.
Friendly reminder that we imprison people at the same rate as the USSR did at the height of the Gulag system. Behind all the euphemisms, we're living under the boot of a grotesque police state.
The American government is guilty of everything the accuse China of.
That's a highly generalized take that doesn't hold water at all. The American government sucks but they're not operating organ farms in concentration camps targeting religions, they're not redrawing their maps to include parts of neighboring nations like Mexico and Canada, they're not funding North Korea as the DPRK launches missiles over South Korea and Japan, they don't have social credit scores, they don't systematically harass and threaten their own citizens abroad..
We can keep going if you want. And we can talk about the terrible shit America does too.
But "these two entities are both bad and therefore they do the same exact things" is fucking dumb, naive, myopic, childish, and a bunch of other pejoratives I could think of. Grow up.
It’s been said before but bears repeating: 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook!
The FBI would never have anything to do with the word Hoover.
I would expect nothing less to be honest, other people are doing it so they're going to also.