Posts Tagged ‘big brother’

DNA Cops Crack Down on Flower Theft and Other High Crimes

Don’t carry salmon around if something doesn’t feel right. Never lie to a girl to get her number. And if you’re riding a horse in the street, make sure you’re not doing it “furiously.” These rules seem ludicrous, inane, and irrelevant—and they are—but in the UK, breaking any of them is enough to get your genetic information stored in the the national DNA database—for life.

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March 4th, 2008 Tags: ,
by Lizzy Buchen in Health & Medicine | 3 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >