☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have been quietly harvesting <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> from American citizens, including minors, and funneling the samples into an <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> crime <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/database" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>database</span></a>, government data shows. This expansion of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/GeneticSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneticSurveillance</span></a> was never authorized by Congress for citizens, children, or civil detainees.</p><p>According to newly released government data analyzed by Georgetown Law’s Center on <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> & <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a>, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees CBP, collected the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens between 2020 and 2024 and had it sent to <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CODIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CODIS</span></a>, the FBI’s nationwide system for policing investigations. An estimated 95 were minors, some as young as 14. The entries also include travelers never charged with a crime and dozens of cases where agents left the “charges” field blank. In other files, officers invoked civil penalties as justification for swabs that federal law reserves for criminal arrests.”</p><p>🧬 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/the-dhs-has-been-quietly-harvesting-dna-from-americans-for-years/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/09/the-dhs-has-been-quietly-harvesting-dna-from-americans-for-years/</span></a>></p>