Government : Enacting Biometrics Law

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http://www.vialibre....4-15D3730-2.pdf

I cannot verify the source as authentic document published by a government body, but let's assume it's authentic.

 

[ElQueso]

Wow - not biometrics, but genetics - DNA, unless the word genéticos has a wider meaning in Spanish than genetics in English. And even for renewing a DNI or a driver's license you're supposed to be subject to verification that it's you via a DNA test? Used to take a long time for DNI processing and renewals, it got much, much better in the last few years - imagine if they have to give everyone a DNA test before the process is completed. It will reverse any gains in time made in processing things like this, I'd think. As far as I know, DNA testing still takes a bit of time.

I don't believe this is real, or if it's real that it's really going to happen. I have to admit I've not seen a proposal for a law here in Argentina before, but the document seems awfully open-ended and incomplete to me for something of such far-reaching possibile consequences. On top of that, I can't imagine that the government would go to such lengths, although I could be definitely wrong about both opinions.

 

[andesmandes]

If you google the title only that one link comes up. Seems a little strange.

 

[gpop]

If you google the title only that one link comes up. Seems a little strange.

It is strange, and your right re: searching on the title, but I've found a few more .gov.ar indexed postings by searching on the subject pertaining to BA. Perhaps the pdf title has been changed or the file has been doctored... but the idea peaked my interest.
From one point, HOW would they do this... i mean they can't even get people to clean up after their dogs, and on the more intriguing WHY; what would they do with this data? Who would use it and in what way would it be used?
What's the reason for making it law and compelling people to surrender their DNA?

 

[Tilda]

Not that I think this is the reason, but it would be a treasure for medical research. A big sample size, sort of randomised. Not that it is going to happen, ever. Argentina barely trusts the government to keep their money.

 

[expatgigi]

I cannot help myself.
From pasteurization to the atomic bomb to the polio vaccine to Birkenau gas chambers, science has provided knowledge and power equally capable of good and evil. The moral and ethical questions of what we are now capable of doing are too big to be left to scientists alone and necessarily engage every thinking person.
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DNA test for ID
http://travel.state.gov/content/travel/english/legal-considerations/us-citizenship-laws-policies/citizenship-and-dna-testing.
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the potential to establish data links between, for ex- ample, a record in a national DNa database with a record in a passport or identity card register is already technologically possible.

From
https://danishbiometrics.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/stampa20ann_07_0620johnson-11804283661.pdf
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http://www.stetson.edu/law/studyabroad/argentina/home/media/document/WEEK3-Nagle3-Monday-RightIdentityLivingDisappeared-LawArt.pdf
DNA identiacation continues to be an invaluable tool for aiding those who question their identity and anding those who have disappeared. The Abuelas continue to work with CONADI and the National Bank of Ge- netic Data, warehousing genetic information so that, in the event that the Abuelas are unable to and their grandchildren, their grandchildren will be able to and them. The establishment of the National Bank of Genetic Data has been instrumental in restoring Argentinean families and is an important component of Argentina’s commitment to preventing future human rights abuses. As trials for these violations continue, the use of stored DNA and genetic information will become even more valuable in exposing, and thus deterring, mass murders.169

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A medical record contains information about one's past; a DNA molecule contains information about one's future as well.
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http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/64790/norma.htm
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Our ma- chine readable bodies disclose who we are, in some ways beyond our control, and possibly contrary to our interests and wishes. In forensics, but also for example in border and migration control, identity is established from bodies in ways that bypass what the person in question themselves might say. You may claim to be the daughter of this woman from Sierra Leone, your genetic profile says otherwise; you may say that you’re only 14 years old, but the machines X-raying you tell us you are a liar; you may want to convince us that you are this healthy, low risk, per- son, but our data show you to be quite someone else. In all these examples the outcomes may be reversed: you may after all be able to prove your innocence, your entitlement to enter the country, or your em- ployability.
From http://www.iss.it/binary/publ/cont/STAMPA%20ANN_07_07%20VD%20Proeg.1180428381.pdf

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For Spanish readers:
http://hipertextual.com/2012/01/sibios-la-pesima-idea-para-la-vigilancia-masiva-del-gobierno-argentino

http://www.protecciondedatos.com.ar/proyecto38.htm

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http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240082399/Banks-save-with-passport-ID-check-call-centre

Now put it all together and shake it well
and
remove the limits of your thinking
because in this country
anything just about anything can happen
Have Fun