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> Slightly biased because I'm a european, but I think a european country is more likely to be trust-able with a country-wide DNA database.

There were multiple governments operating pervasive surveillance states and using them to punish dissidents on the western part of European continent well within a human lifetime from today. What makes you think that won't happen again, this time in a completely iron-clad way?

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> "Only slightly more though"

Generally, we've seen that that was bad and I would hope that we wouldn't do it again. I did also say that I don't think it would actually work out because governments, in my original comment

> well within a human lifetime from today

You can just say "at this very moment".

Well, that's true, but it's not as on-the-nose as, say, Francisco Franco did it.

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