Malaysian Bar says cops’ proposal to take DNA samples from newborns violation of privacy

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File picture shows a robotic DNA sample automation machine working on DNA samples in Tarrytown, New York, March 24, 2015. — Reuters pic
KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 — The Malaysian Bar said today the police’s proposal to take DNA samples from newborn babies for identification purposes violates a person’s privacy and civil liberties and may pave the way for more onerous purposes in the future. Its president A G Kalidas said that the Bar is perturbed by the proposal which the police said can assist in criminal investigations.“This could potentially open Pandora’s Box and may encroach on the privacy and civil liberties of the people, even when one is not suspected of a crime,” he said in a statement. He cited a watershed case by the European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”) decision of S. and Marper v. the United Kingdom— where the ECHR held that holding the DNA samples of arrested individual…