Part III responds to common privacy-based objections. Part II examines how a universal DNA database could be designed to limit its privacy-invasion potential. Part I briefly introduces current forensic DNA databases. Are those concerns rational? By analysing a universal DNA database's design, the probability that imagined abuses would occur, and the invasive investigative techniques the database could end, this article demonstrates that a universal DNA database might actually improve privacy. Yet discussions about universal databases are often halted by invasion of privacy concerns. 4 A universal DNA database could have prevented those 350 false convictions and 147 later violent crimes. 3 DNA also enabled law enforcement to identify 149 of the true perpetrators of those crimes, who ‘went on to be convicted of 147 additional violent crimes, including 77 sexual assaults, 35 murders, and 35 other violent crimes while the innocent sat behind bars for their earlier offenses’. 2 DNA evidence has exonerated 350 innocents who combined had served 4787 years in prison, sometimes on death row. As of April 2017, the federal DNA database has assisted in more than 358,069 investigations. Their main concern? That a universal DNA database would grossly invade their privacy.Ī universal DNA database's benefits in efficiently and effectively solving crimes, exonerating the innocent, and decreasing racial disparities in law enforcement, however, make such a database immensely appealing from a public safety and criminal justice perspective. Many people have a visceral, negative reaction to the idea of a universal DNA database.
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