This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, June 11th, 2013.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The Supreme Court's recent Maryland v King decision allows police to collect DNA samples from arrestees on a much broader

scale than ever before.

Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, says Nanny's statists are more than ready

to find new ways to track us all through DNA testing.

Even the majority opinion here in this case notes that

they'll be back for more in terms of wanting to make use of this DNA database

which will be a rapidly growing database to locate people for this or that.

Yeah. The dissent by Justice Scalia and the three liberals warned very

loudly that they will be back he said it will not stop at serious crime

which is what the Maryland law

had specified they will be back to take these tests after

petty crime they will be back to use it for other purposes

they will try to dispense with protections like the one in the Maryland law

which said that if you were not found guilty, they would throw the evidence away.

And even the majority opinion by Justice Kennedy really did acknowledge, to paraphrase,

yes we know that we're back for more and we're here to make sure that they don't get away with too much.

We will look carefully when they try to extend it into these new areas.

Same week that the court handed down its decision, the state of Mississippi announced that it had thought of a new use for DNA

testing. It was going to test babies of many underage mothers and try to match them to a DNA database to find the biological fathers.

Now that again is just to start.

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