The U.S. Supreme Court now treats DNA like fingerprinting

It’s actually fundamentally different, per Noah Feldman:

If the government has my fingerprints, it’s like they have my randomly assigned Social Security number. If it has my DNA, it’s like they have the entire operating system.

Via June 4, 2013 “If DNA sampling was actually like fingerprinting, [the Supreme Court’s] argument might be convincing” @ Althouse.