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House of Lords minor amendment to the Counter-Terrorism Bill - removing your innocent DNA from Government databases
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Spy Blog | The House of Lords has voted to accept a minor Opposition Amendment regarding the removal of innocent people’s DNA profiles, human tissue samples and fingerprints from centralised Government database, during the first part of the Report stage of the controversial Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 See the debate and the vote: Tuesday, 4 November 2008 Counter-Terrorism Bil The wording of the amendment:
Given that there are no penalties for any bureaucrats or politicians who refuse to comply, or who deliberately delay this process, it is unlikely that any such new regulations will make any practical difference. The Government could simply copy the existing ACPO Guidelines, which make it as hard as possible for innocent people to have their DNA profiles and samples and fingerprints, removed. The only positive aspect of this wording “national guidelines for governmental agencies ” is general enough so that it is not restricted to just the sneaky Counter-Terrorism DNA Database, run by the Metropolitan Police Service, which is what is under “clarification” in this part of the Bill, but it applies to all Government and Police DNA and fingerprint databases, including the controversial National DNA Databases. It is interesting that Baroness Hanham (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Conservative) mentioned searching the internet for a a particular document:
It is indeed scandalous that even our modest Spy Blog discussion about this document, (see ACPO “Retention Guidelines for Nominal Records on the Police National Computer, incorporating the Step Down Model” - no data deletion until you are 100 years old ! About 6000 different criminal offences.) rates higher on the Google search engine query results page, than anything about this published by the Home Office, or the major political parties or the mainstream media. Very disappointingly, Baroness Mannigham-Buller, the former Director General of MI5 the Security Service, voted with the Labour Government against even this very modest attempt to ensure some fairness and transparency for innocent people, caught up by such national DNA and fingerprint databases. It will be interesting to see if the Labour Government tries to overturn this Amendment when the Bill returns to the House of Commons. Have Your Say: House of Lords minor amendment to the Counter-Terrorism Bill - removing your innocent DNA from Government databases Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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