Track and Trace: DNA Harvested from Coronavirus Tests to be Kept for “National Security” – UK Parliament

n a shocking move that defies belief the UK parliament has quietly passed legislation that allows the government to retain not only DNA harvested from Coronavirus testing but fingerprints as well.

The Coronavirus (Retention of fingerprints and DNA profiles in the interests of National Security) (No.2) Regulations 2020 legislation takes effect as of October 1st 2020.

The curious part is why fingerprint biometric data is added to this bill. Since when was your fingerprint taken from you when you were tested for coronavirus? I haven’t been able to see any examples of this or firsthand witness reports on social media that have complained about being fingerprinted when they were tested. This leads us to believe that fingerprint collection, when no criminal conviction has been recorded, is simply an overreach of surveillance and data collection in order to track and trace as many individuals as possible.

Either way you look at this it’s a massive further step into a draconian technocratic surveillance grid.

Many people suspected that the government would take this route or were doing it anyway. Now those suspicions are solidified into law.