Kuwaiti law will require all residents to submit DNA profile to the State.
 

Article says all residents - citizens and non citizens - will have to submit their DNA to the authorities , which is entered into a national database.

Failure to do so will result in stiff punishment.

https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/ku...154521142.html

The excuse they are using is the ISIS attack.

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Seems reasonable if its managed properly.

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My jaw just hit the floor.:eek:

These kind of laws are Orwellian.

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I did say “if”

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But actually: really? Most (?) countries in the world require you to carry some form of identification, so the DNA sample is just an extension of that. A requirement also of many countries is fingerprints when applying for a residence visa--I've known many people rile at that, but I just don't get it: what's the difference, in essence, between that and having your photo taken? Again, a DNA sample is just an extension. I have no issues with it in principle, but its the practice in the third world that would worry me.

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This is quite a sensitive subject that needs to be handled with extreme discretion. I remember back in the eighties a similar move was thought out in some constituent country in the world (I am not going to mention names, given the quality of some people on this board) and a process of gathering people’s DNA and logging them into a database was initiated. Very soon after the process had started it was called to an immediate halt and the reason given was that the gathered DNA figures started showing some irregularities where some people who though they belonged to their families, in genetic terms they actual did not. Such a phenomenon is extremely unlikely to show up in Kuwait given the strict state and the cultural rules concerning the females in that society, but certainly in other parts of the world the case is quite different and therefore if such a survey is to be conducted it should certainly be done under strict state control rules with undisclosed results.

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It would be quite astounding if the authorities used the samples to test for familial connections outside of crime solving. Mind you, given the mind-set of some countries, I wouldn't put it past them. However, the stated intention is to solve crimes, and one would hope that arcane religious fixations on sexual practices won't come into play.

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i'd insert a suitable remark here referring to consanguinity but i like my freedom too much

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I have some concerns over the privacy and handling of such a sensitive database, but overall I think that keeping a DNA register of all citizens/residents is a fairly logical thing to do.

Most developed countries are already building a database in some capacity. UAE have also said they are in the process of doing so. How would you know if they already started or not? They already take your blood.

A small excerpt from everyone's least favourite rag..

If you are not a bad *****er and don't plan on breaking the law you have nothing to hide. Unless you are a genius they are not going to clone you either are they...

redshark as usual talks about stuff he knows nothing about. :thumbdown:

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It's to flush out the alien hybrids. Ask David Icke.

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I dunno......Haven't you watched Jerry Springer/Jeremy Kyle?

It'd probably bring down the economy (or society) with all the resulting divorces and court hearings.

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My point is that DNA databases in UK/US and so on exist mainly for the purpose of solving crime and medical research. There are some more specialized databases as well, for example US Army keep a record of all their people to ensure there are no more unknown soldiers. Nothing wrong with any of these initiatives in my book...

I just cannot see how there would be political appetite to check if kids are legitimate or not on a big scale, and what would be the objective anyway. To claim that a programme was shut down for this purpose is ludicrous.

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Think of the inbreeding that would be on display with a database of DNA in the GCC.

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There is probably only three unique sets of DNA that they need to store. It'll be a small database - more of a notebook.

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Sounds like Portsmouth.