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DNA testing and privacy / by Krasner, Barbara,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Home DNA testing companies, such as 23 and Me and AncestryDNA, are at peak popularity, fulfilling our desires to know where we come from and what our future might look like. But questions have arisen about who owns test results and whether testing companies have the right to sell customers' data to pharmaceutical companies and other outlets. Yet home DNA tests have been credited with catching criminals, such as the Golden State Killer. Containing viewpoints from diverse voices in the field, this volume examines the controversies surrounding home DNA tests."--Grades 9 to 12.
Subjects: DNA; DNA fingerprinting; DNA data banks; Privacy, Right of;
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Genetic justice : DNA data banks, criminal investigations, and civil liberties / by Krimsky, Sheldon.(CARDINAL)524733; Romero, Anthony D.(CARDINAL)553133; Simoncelli, Tania.(CARDINAL)500500;
Includes bibliographical references (page 393) and index.Introduction -- Forensic DNA analysis -- The network of U.S. DNA data banks -- Community DNA dragnets -- Familial DNA searches -- Forensic DNA phenotyping -- Surreptitious biological sampling -- Exonerations : when the DNA doesn't match -- The illusory appeal of a universal DNA data bank -- The UK : paving the way in forensic DNA -- Japan's forensic DNA data bank : a call for reform -- Australia : a quest for uniformity in DNA data banking -- Germany : from eugenics to forensics -- Italy : a data bank in search of a law -- Privacy and genetic surveillance -- Racial disparities in DNA data banking -- Fallibility in DNA identification -- The efficacy of DNA data banks : a case of diminishing returns -- Toward a vision of justice : principles for responsible uses of DNA in law enforcement -- Appendix : A comparison of DNA databases in six nations.Explores how different countries balance the use of DNA databanks in criminal justice with the rights of their citizens, including arguments about the dangers of collecting DNA from arrested individuals and the myth behind DNA profiling.
Subjects: Criminal investigation; DNA data banks; Evidence, Criminal;
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DNA databases / by Harding, Lauri.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-96) and index.Authors present various viewpoints on the cutting-edge field of DNA technology, stating that the information that can be obtained from a DNA sample is far more extensive than that from a fingerprint and explaining that genetic surveillance raises serious privacy concerns.
Subjects: DNA data banks; DNA fingerprinting; DNA fingerprinting; Criminal justice, Administration of; Criminals; Privacy, Right of; DNA fingerprinting; DNA fingerprinting; DNA data banks;
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DNA evidence / by Marzilli, Alan.(CARDINAL)671417;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-114) and index.Using DNA to solve crimes -- Point : prosecutors overstate the reliability of DNA evidence -- Counterpoint : DNA evidence provides a reliable basis for convictions -- Point : collecting DNA samples threatens privacy -- Counterpoint : DNA profiling has the sole purpose of solving actual crimes -- Point : DNA banks are growing too rapidly -- Counterpoint : comprehensive DNA data banks are necessary for law enforcement -- Point : the most pressing use for DNA evidence is freeing the wrongly convicted -- Counterpoint : the most pressing use for DNA evidence is solving cold cases -- The future of DNA evidence.
Subjects: DNA fingerprinting; Evidence, Expert; Forensic genetics;
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Death dance / A Novel / by Fairstein, Linda A.(CARDINAL)343216;
A world-famous ballerina has disappeared from Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House during a performance. Cooper teams up with two homicide detectives, laying bare the rough world of professional theater--not everything is beautiful at the ballet. At the same time, Fairstein investigates a sexual-assault case in which a doctor drugs his victims, using a particularly chilling MO. Fairstein's exploration of contemporary DFSA (drug-facilitated sexual assault) and the legal intricacies of DNA data banks proves fascinating. The latest Cooper delivers what has made this series so good: solid legal, procedural, and forensic detail surrounding an intriguing case.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Cooper, Alexandra (Fictitious character); Ballerinas; Public prosecutors; Women lawyers;
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Another now : a novel / by Varoufakis, Yanis,author.(CARDINAL)357786;
"The year: 2035. At a funeral for Iris, a revolutionary leftist feminist, Yango is approached by Costa, Iris's closest comrade, who urges him to carry out Iris's last wish: plough into her secret diaries to tell their story. "But", Costa insists "leave out anything that might help Big Tech replicate my technologies!" That night Yango delves into Iris's diaries. In them he discovers a chronicle of how Costa's revolutionary technologies had unveiled an actually existing, fully democratized, postcapitalist society. Suddenly he understands Costa's obsession with the hackers trying to steal his secrets. So begins Yanis Varoufakis's extraordinary novelistic thought-experiment, where the world-famous economist offers an invigorating and deeply moving vision of an alternative reality. Another Now tells the story of Costa, a brilliant but deeply disillusioned, computer engineer, who creates a revolutionary technology that will allow the user a "glimpse of a life beyond their dreams" but will not enslave them. But an accident during one of its trial runs unveils a cosmic wormhole where Costa meets his DNA double, who is living in a 2025 very different than the one Costa is living in. In this parallel 2025 a global hi-tech uprising, begun in the wake of the collapse of 2008, has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratized. Banks have been eliminated, as well as predatory, data-mining digital monopolies; the gig economy is no more; and the young are free to experiment with different careers and to study "non-lucrative topics, from Sumerian pottery to astrophysics." Intoxicated, Costa travels to England to tell Iris, his old comrade, and her neighbor, Eva, a recovering banker turned neoliberal economics professor, of the parallel universe he has discovered. Costa eventually leads them back to his workshop in America where Iris and Eva meet their own doubles, and confront hard truths about themselves and the daunting political challenge that "the Other Now" presents. But, as their obsession with the Other Now deepens, time begins to run out, as the wormhole begins to deteriorate and hackers begin to unleash new attacks on Costa's technology. The trio have to make a choice: which 2025 do they want to live in? Varoufakis has been claiming for a while that we already live in postcapitalist times. That, since the 2008 crisis, capitalism has been morphing into technofeudalism. Another Now, a riveting work of speculative fiction, shows that there is a realistic, democratic alternative to the technofeudalpostcapitalist dystopia taking shape all around us. It also confronts us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?" --
Subjects: Science fiction.; Fiction.; Novels.; Economics; Social prediction;
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