Friday, June 09, 2006
Big Brother DNA Collection Now Set to Begin
I warned in Fight for Your Health that our federal government plans to have the DNA of every American in its database very soon. The first large scale project is now set to begin in 2008, backed by 2.7 billion in federal funding. The National Institutes of Health and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia plan to collect the DNA of 100,000 children and track them for years. While such projects may sound admirable and could produce useful information, the ultimate goal is to collect every citizen’s DNA and have it in a government database. Of course, the Department of Homeland Security will have easy access, whether they are supposed to or not.
Numerous plans to collect DNA are popping up all over the place. Kaiser Permanente, the big Oakland, Calif., health-maintenance organization, is developing plans to request DNA samples from its two million adult members.
This isn’t a science fiction movie – it’s your health and your rights.
