
Originally Posted by
Katman
The taking of DNA samples (and what happens with them afterwards) is strictly regulated by the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act.
Roadside drug testing comes under the Land Transport Act which has none of the strict regulations regarding the taking and usage of DNA samples.
As a sovereign free being, that will be the basis of my refusal to provide a sample.
Good luck with that, it’s 75 demerit points to refuse the new roadside test.
I also disagree with govt obtaining DNA samples from innocent people but the reality is they don’t have the funding, manpower or infrastructure systems in place for mass sample storage.
The couldn’t even keep the covid testing records which would have been of high financial commercial value to vaccine manufacturers.
Btw if you were born in nz mid 70’s onwards the govt has your dna stored under a program to monitor a serious disease starts with G but police need to go through massive hurdles to utilise that.
And if ANYONE in your wider family has been curious and used popular services like Ancestry DNA then your data/dna is also freely available to anyone with money. A criminal was convicted in UDS after his cousins use of DNA service proved enough data to link a crime scene sample to likely candidates, while not direct implication it narrowed the pool of suspects for police to investigate.
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