Date: 2009-12-16 09:31 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] pepperbeast.livejournal.com
I don't think you can get away with saying 'the DNA wasn't mine guv, I threw it away'.

No, you're missing my point. There are restrictions on police going through my house or my computer without because those things are actually *mine*. If you throw something away, *you don't own it*. You can't claim that you're being subjected to an unreasonable search when someone does some analysis on something *that isn't yours* and that they found in a public place.

As for DNA samples being *required*-- I'm not sure I'm 100% comfortable with it, but on the other hand, I suspect that from a police standpoint, it's not that much different from their existing fingerprints database. (And in the case of fingerprints, they take them from *everyone* they arrest, for any reason.)
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