Even visitors to the UK. Yeah. Good luck with that. No one is going to agree to that. The UK is already one of the biggest "nanny states" in the world, why would anyone want to give up their DNA? Something like that would be ripe for abuse. It certainly wouldn't fly here in the US.
Hell, there are people getting sued because jails want DNA samples from all inmates even BEFORE they are convicted. There are even examples of jails being told to get rid of the samples and they aren't doing it.
So don't think for a minute that the British will fall for this.
Here's a scary example of abuse. Someone works at the DNA lab. They get mad at their significant other and plans their murder. What's to prevent them from grabbing a sample and smearing it all over the crime scene, making it look like the person actually did the crime?
Now that's a worst case scenario, but you can imagine other's that are just as scary. People want to be free from Big Brother, and to ask everyone to give up their DNA samples, even visitors, just simply isn't going to happen. If they put something like that into place, you can watch their tourism trade drop to next to nothing. I know I wouldn't visit the UK if they did that, or I'd get right back on the plane and head for home.
Travis
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