Saturday, April 23, 2016

Kuwait to DNA Test and Tag All Tourists and Citizens

All visitors and tourists to Kuwait will now have to submit to a DNA test and be DNA tagged before they’re allowed to enter the Persian Gulf state, reports Traveller24.

Tourists and visitors to Kuwait will get their DNA taken through specimens of saliva or a few drops of blood done at a special DNA testing facility at the airport.

The DNA collection will be done at a special testing centre at Kuwait International Airport and there will be “consequences of rejecting its procedures” for visitors who refuse the mandatory test.

Citizens will also be DNA tested by using mobile testing centres that will move through the state and residents will have their DNA captured when they apply for the issuing or renewing of residency visas during medical examinations.

According to The Kuwait Times, the DNA testing law is “aimed at creating an integrated security database”.

Scary.

 -RW

2 comments:

  1. No room for abuse either cause it's impossible to fake DNA evidence.

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  2. Beta testing for TSA. BTW, at some point, will TSA claim that web surfing or TV watching are "surrogates" for actual transporting, and so require "in home" anal probes? The precedent for this could be the ruling in the 30's that growing your own wheat for your own consumption was a "surrogate" for commercial use and came under the "interstate commerce" nonsense.

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