The Kuwaiti government passed a law in July 2015 requiring all citizens and permanent residents ( 4.2 million people ) to have their DNA taken for a national database . The reason for this law was security concerns after the ISIS suicide bombing of the Imam Sadiq mosque . They planned to finish collecting the DNA by September 2016 which outside observers thought was optimistic . In October 2017 the Kuwait constitutional court struck down the law saying it was an invasion of personal privacy and the project was cancelled
ISIS suicide bombing of the Imam Sadiq mosque
2015 Kuwait mosque bombing
DNA database