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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Has Collected Profiles for 21 Million People
and the are collecting the the same proportion of their populations’ DNA profiles, about 7%— and the FBI wants to double its budget to get even more. 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. The staggering increases are raising questions among advocates.
theintercept.com/2023/08/29/fb

The Intercept · FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and CountingBy Ken Klippenstein