ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows
In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss how ICE has been collecting DNA samples of people with no criminal convictions, including children, which end up in an FBI database indefinitely.
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ICE has collected DNA samples from nearly a million people in the past year, including young children, and submitted hundreds of thousands of these samples to an FBI database where they remain indefinitely. Most of these individuals have no criminal convictions and were not suspected of crimes, yet the DNA collection has become routine practice for immigration officers. The practice has drawn criticism from lawmakers, particularly after discovery that children under 14, including children as young as 5 years old, have been added to the FBI's criminal database. Refusing DNA collection has resulted in criminal charges against people in immigration custody.
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