Sorry, edited it to my comment.

Edit2: Maybe it’s not mandatory for now. But it looks suspicious to me.

DNA aswell. I was pretty shocked.

i. Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf

Yeah, that’s right. I guess they’re like “They’ll get court order anyway, so why should we even try to stop 'em”…

Edit: more likely they’re bootlickers of Lord Donald “The Orange” Trump and they probably hope to be in his favor.

Every US based company is pretty much legally obliged to hand over everything, even if they collect data outside of US.

This is nothing new. New is, that this data is now getting abused at large scale.

Sooner or later, I see myself forcing my important contacts to use linux. But indirectly, like, if they want to keep messaging me, they need to switch to a trustworthy OS. Of course I’ll have to verify beforehand if they actually use it.

Hopefully, they keep Threema like it is. But sure, I will watch closely. If they slowly start to enshittify it, I will be gone.

Sounds interesting to me…

Well, DNA contains the most sensitive information an individual has. Not only relations. For now, we have limited knowledge what the DNA is able to tell us about how a person looks, what kind of diseases he/she developes, etc… But very soon we will understand it much better and I think we’ll be shocked, what’s possible in the future.

And in that moment I don’t want my DNA to be out there. The possibilities of abuse are far too high in my opinion.

But it also strongly depends on the whole procedure: -> What kind of DNA-profile will be created? STR-profile or SNP-profile? STR = Short Tandem Repeats (less privacy intrusive, less markers) SNP = Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (used for 23andme, much more intrusive, usually > 300000 markers)

The golden-state-killer case shows: You can give your DNA and your cousin in the third degree can be identified (same grand-grand-grandfather) through SNP.

-> Will the sample be taken at the border? If the DNA has to be done directly at the border, who tells me the saliva sample will be disposed after creating the profile? We know US intelligence agencies collect all kinds of things.

But I need to say, I am not an expert in this field, just very cautious when it comes to genetic privacy.

DNA is pretty much privacy endgame. That’s pure madness.

Especially when I think about the relatives, who don’t want to share parts of their DNA. Imagine what intelligence agencies will do with it. This should be illegal, shouldn’t it?