In: Biology
how does Canada's stance on DNA finger print compare
to the international community?
1) DNA fingerprinting is a technique that allows government agencies and medical professionals to determine to whom a piece of biological material belongs. It is primarily used to place suspects at a crime scene and sometimes link them to an act of crime
The international stance differs, the US supreme court has ruled it legal to collect and footprint DNA from people charged with but still not convicted of serious crime.
Meanwhile, the EU struck down a UK law that enabled officers to collect, store, and catalog arrested people's DNA. Even after they have been found innocent.
This is primarily a question of ethics and privacy, does prevention of crime warrant collection of DNA from innocents.
The argument is that violent crimes are perpetrated by a disproportionately small amount of people, who with the existence of a DNA library would be easy to trace.