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China’s effort to collect its people’s DNA concerns scientists (nature.com)
12 points by nikolasavic 2172 days ago
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> Scientists and human-rights activists say a genetic database containing information about people without a criminal history is unprecedented. “This is really unique. No other country is doing it,”

Maybe unique at that scale, but I believe that the genome of 20% of Iceland's population has been fully sequenced (60k fully sequenced, 180k partially sequenced, population 300k)