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Biological Technologies

Recent and near-term advances in genetics and biotechnology offer us the unprecedented ability to manipulate nature – and present complex challenges for civil liberties. The ACLU is engaged in an exploratory process to examine the impact these new and emerging technologies will have on freedom, privacy, and society as a whole, while supporting efforts to resist the unchecked expansion of bio-surveillance tools like DNA databases. More

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Combat in Our Genes? (blog 2011)

ACLU Comments to the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders Regarding the Retention and Use of Residual Dried Blood Spot Specimens After Newborn Screening (folder 2010)

Newborn DNA Banking (folder 2010)

ACLU Statement for a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DNA Evidence and Rape Cases (folder 2009)

Keeping Us — and the Constitution — Healthy (blog 2009)

Maintaining Civil Liberties Protections in Response to the H1N1 Flu (folder 2009)

Coalition Letter to the Departments of Labor, Treasury and Health and Human Services Regarding the Implementation of Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) (folder 2009)

Coalition Letter to the Senate Urging Protection of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) (folder 2009)

State Police Return DNA Sample (press 2008)

ACLU of Massachusetts Files Suit to Stop "Shadow" DNA Databases (press 2008)

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