<story><title>Should the police be able to investigate your genetic family tree for any crime?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/police-dna-warrant.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LurkersWillLurk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m reminded of parallels between cell phone location privacy and genetic tracking. The average person does not understand that they are creating a record of everywhere they go when they have their cell phone on. The same is true with your DNA - while it&amp;#x27;s true that you do in fact leave a literal trace of your genes, you don&amp;#x27;t expect that you could be identified later on simply by the fact that you had lunch.&lt;p&gt;What we really need is a legislative solution, but unfortunately I have low expectations for Congress, seeing that Carpenter v. United States even had to happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redm</author><text>I like your analogy, I&amp;#x27;d add that DNA search&amp;#x2F;collection is akin to scanning cell phone records to see who was in the area at the time of the crime. Which typically requires a warrant.</text></comment>
<story><title>Should the police be able to investigate your genetic family tree for any crime?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/police-dna-warrant.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LurkersWillLurk</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m reminded of parallels between cell phone location privacy and genetic tracking. The average person does not understand that they are creating a record of everywhere they go when they have their cell phone on. The same is true with your DNA - while it&amp;#x27;s true that you do in fact leave a literal trace of your genes, you don&amp;#x27;t expect that you could be identified later on simply by the fact that you had lunch.&lt;p&gt;What we really need is a legislative solution, but unfortunately I have low expectations for Congress, seeing that Carpenter v. United States even had to happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>decoyworker</author><text>What would you legislate?&lt;p&gt;Your location is not private information and never has been. Not sure how you could even legislate to make your DNA protected private information- under HIPPA for instance, considering you leave it everywhere you go. Your fingerprint is not private, your face is not private, and your DNA is not private. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how they could be.</text></comment>