Any Revision Should Fully Respect Right to Privacy The Constitutional Court’s decision on October 5, 2017 to strike down Kuwait’s overly broad DNA law is a positive step for the right to pri... Read more
The Forensic Genetics Policy Initiative report: Establishing Best Practice for Forensic DNA Databases is now available on: http://dnapolicyinitiative.org/report/ This report was developed by... Read more
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah instructed the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to reexamine the DNA law in accordance with Kuwait’s constitutio... Read more
Kuwait is about to become the first country to require all citizens, expatriates, residents and visitors to provide a DNA sample to the government database. The law, that is expected to go i... Read more
Kuwait is about to become the first country to require all citizens, expatriates, residents and visitors to provide a DNA sample to the government’s database. The law, which is expected to g... Read more
Kuwait is about to become the first country to require all citizens, expatriates, residents and visitors to provide a DNA sample to the government database. The law was ratified in 2015, a w... Read more
In Kuwait, citizenship is passed down by bloodline. With Kuwaits new DNA law, which is expected to go into effect this year, we might see an unprecedented mission of citizenship enforcement... Read more
The UN Human Rights Committee, composed of 18 international experts, called on Kuwait to amend its compulsory DNA testing law, saying that it was disproportionate and violated the right to p... Read more
Josiah Sutton and his friend Gregory Adams, 16 and 19 at the time, were accused for kidnapping and raping a 41 year old Houston woman although they both had alibis and didn’t match the profi... Read more
The FBI’s Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) is a database of biometric information including fingerprints, eye scans, facial scans, and DNA samples. The database is often used to... Read more