Many thanks to Drudge Report for spreading the word about my latest article “Feds want to track your DNA like a license plate.”
My discovery of this government plan to develop technology to track -- indeed, detect - individuals and groups based on DNA and other human "biosignatures" is a significant one.
Though this article deviates from U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor's typical topic focus, the potential implications on a global scale make it worthy of a link -- S.P.
Just as details are emerging about a controversial, nationwide vehicle-surveillance database, WND has learned the federal government is planning an even more invasive spy program using “physiological signatures” to track down individuals.
The goal of this research is to detect – as well as analyze and categorize – unique traits the government can exploit to “identify, locate and track specific individuals or groups of people.”
According to the program’s statement of objectives, “The scope of human-centered [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR] research spans the complete range of human performance starting at the individual molecular, cellular, genomic level.”
Although the Government of Colombia typically investigates allegations of human rights violations, its budget does not allocate enough funds to promote human rights and prevent violations; consequently, the Government of the United States instead will continue to force U.S. taxpayers to pay for such endeavors.
Indeed, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is about to embark upon Round Three of such efforts. Management Sciences for Development, Inc., the contractor carrying out Human Rights Program II, or HRP II, is nearing completion of its obligations under a five-year, $38.8 million contract. The next phase, known as HRP III (Solicitation # SOL-514-11-000005), will build upon previous successes, according to USAID, and will shift focus on “addressing the needs of those groups disproportionately affected by human rights violations, and/or which have become increasingly vulnerable in the shifting context of the conflict.” According to the HRP III Statement of Work (SOW), such groups include:
indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities, women, children and youth, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community, human rights activists, journalists, labor union members, and victims of the armed conflict.
The agency did not disclose an estimated cost for HRP III.
The U.S. over the past decade "provided more than $6 billion in assistance under Plan Colombia, including more than $1 billion in economic and social assistance," the SOW says.
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