L.A. first responders ordered to turn over personal and genetic data

In an exclusive interview, Law Enforcement Today learned that L.A. County is mandating that employees register their vaccination status through Fulgent Genetics, an international technology company with ties to China, with a required consent to release their personal and genetic information to foreign nations.

First responders, including the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department are being required to upload their medical records and personal information into a Fulgent app used by the County to track employee compliance with the COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

"There is California law that says your genetic information is confidential and personal to you and cannot be released without your consent. And we are being told, 'You shall give consent.' How is that legal? You can't tell me that I have to give consent to something that I don't."

"When you start reading through the fine print of the survey, our attorneys have discovered that not only are you granting them access to use and distribute our genetic data however they see fit, but it also gives them access to our financial information, our personal identifying information including our social security number."

Fulgent Genetics' admission that it plans on studying genetic material is concerning when coupled with the waiver that L.A. County first responders are being ordered to sign on the threat of discipline up to and including termination.

China has been known to collect genetic data on people for years.

"Reuters has found that BGI's prenatal test, one of the most popular in the world, is a source of genetic data for the company, which has worked with the Chinese military to improve 'population quality' and on genetic research to combat hearing loss and altitude sickness in soldiers."
 

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