DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

The FBI has amassed 21.7 million DNA profiles — equivalent to about 7 percent of the U.S. population — according to Bureau data reviewed by The Intercept.. The FBI aims to nearly double its ...

Forced DNA collection presents a significant threat to our privacy rights and civil liberties. If we normalize it, we open ourselves up to a scary world — one in which we are no longer members ...

US Customs and Border Protection collected DNA samples from just 37% of illegal immigrants at the nation’s borders in 2022, preventing federal law enforcement from solving violent and deadly ...

Trump Administration Will Start Collecting DNA From Migrants Next Month The Trump Administration says the policy change will help law enforcement apprehend criminal suspects. Rights advocates ...

WASHINGTON — Routine collection of immigrants’ DNA by federal authorities has ballooned since 2020, with a 50-fold spike in the number of samples held in a national database of the sensitive ...

Border agency violated DNA collection law for years under Obama-era waiver. CBP whistleblower Mark Jones goes one-on-one with Laura on the failure of DHS to comply with a law to collect DNA from ...

In arguing that collecting DNA from arrestees should be unconstitutional, the ACLU, Electronic Freedom Foundation and others have worried about precisely this shift from forced criminal DNA ...

The case stems back to August 2024, when a FOIA request was made to ICE—under the purview of DHS—regarding its practices and procedures pertaining to DNA collection of noncitizens.

At that time, collecting and testing DNA was not possible, not to mention DNA comparison or identification methods. In the nearly 60 years since that decision, ...

DNA Collection Drives in Tibet. According to official media reports, drives to collect DNA from the residents of a given area have taken place in region since 2019. From May 2019, ...