tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750244306663708036.post9026425548799802550..comments2024-03-28T13:22:19.837-07:00Comments on Pa Rock's Ramble: Big Brother Just Got BiggerPa Rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16747526882424245608noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750244306663708036.post-26872994111286286912013-06-06T09:55:23.067-07:002013-06-06T09:55:23.067-07:00Warren, Douglas, and Black are all good company. ...Warren, Douglas, and Black are all good company. So for that matter are Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Scalia I'm not so sure about.<br /><br />Fingerprints are also an invasion of privacy, whether the practice has aged into social acceptability or not. And blood tests are highly invasive. If a person is not proven to be a criminal, where do we draw the line on these invasions of privacy? Or should there even be a line?<br /><br />If were going to tie DNA to the possibility of crime or future crime, maybe we should be swabbing gun and ammo purchasers.Pa Rockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747526882424245608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750244306663708036.post-38650629739393051142013-06-06T05:24:04.919-07:002013-06-06T05:24:04.919-07:00I take that back the decision was 6-3 with Warren,...I take that back the decision was 6-3 with Warren, Douglas, and Black dissenting.Xobekimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973381691719755451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750244306663708036.post-72750143887860698212013-06-06T05:22:33.379-07:002013-06-06T05:22:33.379-07:00BREITHAUPT v. ABRAM, 352 U.S. 432 (1957) is the ca...BREITHAUPT v. ABRAM, 352 U.S. 432 (1957) is the case that makes nonsense about this modern paranoia of DNA databases. This is what a unanimous Supreme Court said in 1957.<br /><br />"As against the right of an individual that his person be held inviolable, even against so slight an intrusion as is involved in applying a blood test of the kind to which millions of Americans submit as a matter of course nearly every day, must be set the interests of society in the scientific determination of intoxication, one of the great causes of the mortal hazards of the road. And the more so since the test likewise may establish innocence, thus affording protection against the treachery of judgment based on one or more of the senses. Furthermore, since our criminal law is to no small extent justified by the assumption of deterrence, the individual’s right to immunity from such invasion of the body as is involved in a properly safeguarded blood test is far outweighed by the value of its deterrent effect due to public realization that the issue of driving while under the influence of alcohol can often by this method be taken out of the confusion of conflicting contentions."<br /><br />The DNA swab is likewise "so slight an intrusion". I likewise hear no call to truncate the databases of fingerprints available to law enforcement.<br />Xobekimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973381691719755451noreply@blogger.com