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		chneu 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your... It's very inaccurate. OP made it sound like Cali was genome sequencing everyone born in the state and then storing that. What's really going on is they're doing routine blood tests. So yeah, pretty inaccurate.

IncreasePosts 7 days ago | [–]

Blood isn't stored after routine blood tests?

DoctorOetker 7 days ago | [–]

It didn't sound like that at all, it just says DNA samples are collected and stored. The implication that such DNA in such samples can be sequenced after the fact is not novel at all, every time DNA is sequenced, it is first collected.

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