Our “people's representatives”, instead of their direct responsibility - to improve the quality of life of citizens - continue to adopt very strange laws, very similar to the elements of the doctrine of liberal globalists. After the March Presidential Decree on "the implementation of genetic certification and the formation of the genetic profile of the population," the State Duma on October 22 in the first reading adopted amendments to 152-FZ "On personal data", which provide ample opportunities for compulsory collection of the genome of Russians. As is usually the case, officially the innovations are explained by the need for "additional protection of information about human genetic characteristics", but a cursory analysis of the amendments suggests the exact opposite.
The amendments allowing the collection of genetic data without the consent of citizens were developed by the Government - in the draft Federal Law they fit in just a few lines. The bottom line is that in Part 1 of Art. 11 152-FZ entitled "Biometric Personal Data" in the definition of biometric personal data now officially included the genetic data of citizens. And in part 2, which lists the cases of processing this data without the consent of a person, in addition to the already existing wide list, a new one is added - “mandatory state genomic registration”.
From the explanations of the speaker of the Duma Vyacheslav Volodin it follows that “the bill will eliminate the legislative gap in terms of protecting information about a person obtained from his biomaterial and reflecting genetically significant information about him - data on health status, lifestyle, behavioral characteristics, sensitivity to drugs and allergens, other individual characteristics ". According to Volodin, "in its current form, the Federal Law" On Personal Data "allows by default, without the knowledge and consideration of a person's will, to carry out uncontrolled collection and transfer of his genetic data."
Let us doubt these statements. First, it is not clear why the personal genome of a person should be equated with biometric data. Biometrics is a system for recognizing people by physical or behavioral characteristics (that is, either by what is related to body shape, or by gait, speech, etc.). And the genome is the aggregate of hereditary material contained in the cell of an organism, which is necessary for its construction, development and maintenance of life. The genome is carried by unique macromolecules: DNA, RNA and proteins. Let us turn again to Art. 11 152-FZ, which is amended. It says that "biometric personal data is used by the operator to establish the identity of the subject of personal data." For identification of an individual in relations with the state and the private sector, it is more than enough to certify fingerprints,a facial image, a sample of a person's voice, etc. And identification by DNA (life code) is a completely different, much more complicated procedure from the field of medicine, biology and biochemistry - it gives access to all individual parameters of a person, creates conditions for complete control of his life and for genetic segregation (!) …
Secondly, Volodin's words that without these amendments until now it was possible to freely collect and transfer genetic data is, at the very least, a great deceit. The collection of genetic material is a medical manipulation that is impossible without the voluntary informed consent of a person (see 323-FZ "On the basics of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation"). In addition, this information is highly confidential, and by default it is protected by medical secrets (Article 13 of the same Federal Law) and a number of articles of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. It cannot be possessed by anyone, except, for example, a citizen's attending physician, or some scientific laboratory that examines DNA as a voluntary experiment.
Now watch your hands. Before our eyes, the lobbyists of genetic certification in a team with the deputies performed a subtle manipulation - they included unique information about the human genome in 152-FZ and equated them with biometric data, which, according to the law, can be used by various operators to establish the identity of the subject of PD. At the same time, we note once again that identification of a citizen by genome is a special complex procedure that has nothing to do with the "classical" comparison of biometrics. Moreover, all the latest studies so far confirm the fact: it is impossible to reproduce a person's face based on the found genes by the DNA sequence (you can only select certain genes or gene sequences that affect the formation of certain facial features, etc.). The same goes for character traits - there are dominant and recessive genes,responsible for certain personality traits, but they do not allow us to accurately predict the character structure that will form in an individual in the course of life. As you can see, there is no point in using genomic identification to quickly confirm a person's identity in everyday life (plus reading and systematization technologies are very expensive).
Nevertheless, the adopted amendments make it possible to forcibly collect genetic material from Russians "in connection with the administration of justice and the execution of judicial acts", as well as in a very wide number of cases "provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation on defense, security, countering terrorism, and transport security., on combating corruption, on operational and investigative activities, on public service, the legislation of the Russian Federation on the procedure for leaving the Russian Federation and entering the Russian Federation, on Russian citizenship”. In other words, nothing prevents the authorities from adding the collection of genetic data to the collection of biometric data in the new passport. And also in the army, when using transport, when entering the civil service, by a court decision - in a word, almost everywhere you can organize a "genetic test" of a person,as well as the creation of an appropriate "unified genetic register of the population" with the sorting of people into appropriate groups.
It is for this, obviously, that an ominous clause was introduced into the amendments - “mandatory state genomic registration”. Note that before that, in Part 2 of Art. 11 152-FZ already had a “mandatory state fingerprint registration”. It is passed by criminals, security officials, rescuers, tax officers, customs officers, a number of categories of civil servants and other groups. In the case of genomic registration, no clear framework has been established, so we will proceed from the Presidential Decree on the need to create conditions for genetic certification (genetic profile) of the entire population until 2025.
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The question of who and why needed information about the genome of the entire population of Russia remains open. In a situation where the US Air Force openly approves government contracts for the purchase of samples of living tissues from Russians, when molecular genetics from research institutes of the level of doctors of science openly talk about the presence of genetic weapons in developed countries (modified genes, viruses adapted to a specific genome, etc.), which can be used in war, bioterrorist attacks, the creation of a base of general passports is seen not as a guarantor of the biological security of the state, but quite the opposite - as a factor of unreasonable risk.
Information on which the vital activity and reproduction of a nation, peoples and country directly depends should remain the personal property of each individual and be carefully protected. Equating the genome with biometrics, the possibility of its use by various operators and compulsory collection by the authorities poses a serious threat to personal and national security. And therefore, if our ministers and parliamentarians really care about this problem, they should have introduced a separate article "Genetic personal data" into FZ 152-FZ, and prescribe much more serious restrictions for their use.