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B.C. police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder::Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

do you really think there arent entities accumulating this information on you, right now??

and hair? you dont need hair to get a dna sample. you breathe it out constantly.

you should have no expectation of privacy to the sequence of your dna.