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 based on genetics. Thousands may be stripped of their n... 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 privacy. The law, which was put in place in 2015 after a... 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 profile from the victim’s original account. Sutton and Adams... 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 identify crime suspects. But is does not only include i... Read more
According to the annual progress report by the National Forensic Oversight and Ethics Board, also known as the DNA board, criminals and some police officers were refusing to have their DNA samples taken. Police officers working with forensics ha... Read more
With the new DNA testing law, which is about to go into effect later this year, Kuwait will become the first country worldwide to require all its citizens and temporary residents to provide DNA samples to the government’s database. Under the new... Read more
DNA can never be wrong, right? It is widely believed that DNA and other forensic evidence can unfailingly identify guilty criminals. But infallibility is simply impossible. Flawed scientific methods, structural obstacles and conflicts of interes... Read more
Judges around the world are involved in a debate over whether a technique known as low-copy number DNA analysis or high-sensitivity analysis, a type of DNA analysis involving the amplification of genetic material, is reliable enough to convict s... Read more
The special rapporteur on the right to privacy (SRP) notes that “approximately 25% of the UN’s member states, have implemented national criminal offender DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) database programs. Forensic DNA databases can play an imp... Read more
Louisiana has one of the most expansive DNA databases in the U.S. Within twelve years, it grew from 12,000 to nearly half a million DNA profiles. Only six other U.S. states have a higher number of DNA profiles in their DNA database. In proportio... Read more