--- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:32:56 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <montyat_private> Subject: Virginia May Collect DNA in Every Arrest for a Felony February 17, 2002 Virginia May Collect DNA in Every Arrest for a Felony By FRANCIS X. CLINES RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 11 - Virginia is on the verge of making a quantum leap in amassing DNA evidence by requiring that everyone arrested on suspicion of a violent crime yield genetic samples for possible matches in unsolved cases. The state already has the nation's largest bank of DNA because it takes saliva samples from each state convict. Expanding DNA swabbing to all those arrested in major felonies would be the most sweeping use of genetic testing by any state. The plan has prompted warnings about privacy invasion and the abuse of defendants' rights. But both houses of the Legislature adopted versions of the plan this week without debate. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/national/17DNA.html --- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 23:27:20 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <montyat_private> Subject: Fine-Tuning For Privacy, Hong Kong Plans Digital ID February 18, 2002 Fine-Tuning For Privacy, Hong Kong Plans Digital ID By MARK LANDLER HONG KONG, Feb. 15 - The border crossing between Hong Kong and mainland China was choked the other day as more than five million people took to the road to visit their relatives for the Chinese New Year. It is an annual ordeal, marked by restless jostling and muttered curses as the crowd waits, sometimes for hours, while the guards examine people's papers. It may also be a thing of the past. Starting next year, Hong Kong plans to introduce an identity card with a computer chip that will contain a digital replica of the cardholder's thumbprint. To cross the China frontier, a person with the card will hold it against an optical reader while placing his or her thumb on a screen. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/18KONG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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