>>Your DNA is now the equilivent of your fingerprint and can be taken without warrant or conviction.
>>http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2013/06/03/supreme-court-says-dna-like-fingerprints-may-be-taken-after-arrest/
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>>Here's the Opinion:
>>http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-207_d18e.pdf
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>>The 4th means a little less today than yesterday.
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>>chip...chip...chip...
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>"....taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee’s DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment."
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>Do you consider fingerprinting to be legitmate?
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>If so, what is the distinction between taking DNA and fingerprinting?

The difference is that your fingerprints only give the police your fingerprints. Your DNA gives the police (that is, the government) pretty much everything there is to know about your body. This is information that only you should be able to control.

Tamar