DNA collections, analysis find US government fans of all stripes

For whatever reason, state collection of DNA – a biometric identifier – does not stir the U.S. public, at least, the way facial recognition algorithms tend to do. Yet the numbers involved in programs like these are only rising into the tens of millions.

Mother Jones, the icon of advocacy journalism in the United States, has published what it found in looking at a biometric-harvesting program born under liberal Pres. Barak Obama and expanded under his more-authoritarian successor.

The program …

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