If someone is leaving behind their DNA at rape and murder crime scenes I WANT them identified, even or ESPECIALLY if they are closely related to me.
Didn’t we just go over that?"
No, you can now be forced to give a DNA sample for merely being arrested, even on a misdemeanor, even if you're never convicted. So no the DNA doesn't have to be found at a murder or rape crime scene originally to be in CODIS. I'm sure you know this though, but choose to gloss over it.
Run into the right JBT, and still cling to the notion that you have Constitutional rights, and bam, your DNA will be collected and put into your system.
To be used in the future for god knows what.
a) identify that any biological sample belongs to you (semen, skin under fingernails, saliva, hair, etc).
b) see if you have any genetic traits that cause disease or are correlated with disease.
c) tell who is related to you.
and potentially some time in the future....
d) tell what population group you belong to, your eye skin and hair color, some personality traits, likely height and IQ range, etc.
So far I have no objection to (a) as I don't leave biological samples at crime scenes, and generally want police to identify the people that do.
People knowing (b) (assuming they amplify my entire genome and not just the ID markers) could either save or cost someone money on insurance; or effect how they are treated by the hypothetical socialized medicine.
Paternity testing or identification of remains is the most common use of (c), and if the child is mine I would want to know.
And so far (d) isn't very likely within our lifetimes and doesn't yield much useful data, considering the expense.
So what exactly are YOU afraid of if your DNA was on file?