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Sunday, November 16th, 2008Civil Liberties Group Concerned Over Privacy Issues MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A proposal to expand the state's DNA database is being questioned by a civil liberties group. Under the Senate Judiciary Committee's plan, the state would start collecting genetic samples from people arraigned on felony crimes. The current law only requires DNA samples from people convicted of felonies. Lawmakers said the change will help protect Vermonters from violent criminals. But Allen Gilbert, the head ...
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Surveillance Overload
Saturday, November 8th, 2008By Christian Harris | The world’s gone security crazy. Everywhere we go stronger measures are being implemented to combat impersonation, ID theft and fraud. Following news that a leading chain of kiddie’s nurseries in the UK is requiring parents to use fingerprint scanners before collecting their brood, the Post Office has that it is also planning a fingerprinting service to stop scumbags making off with our giros. The Government ...
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The DNA database and you
Friday, November 7th, 2008How big is it? How many get off it? Your questions answered... By David Mery Special Report The National DNA Database (NDNAD) keeps growing: it now holds more than five million DNA profiles of individuals. Getting off the database, if you have been sampled by England or Wales forces, remain as unlikely as ever. And it remains difficult to make sense of ...
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Passport Service dismisses 14 for database abuses
Friday, October 31st, 2008The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) says it has dismissed 14 people over the last three years in relation to passport database abuses.The IPS is now closely involved in building the government's national identity card database. Of 16 cases where data protection is said to have been breached, all but one involved members of staff who had legitimate access to the Passport Application Support System database. But those ...
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Record increase in DNA database
Friday, October 10th, 2008More than 722,000 samples were added to the National DNA Database last year - a record increase for one year. The database has samples from some 4m people and is the world's largest per head of population, the National Policing Improvement Agency said. Its report concluded that DNA was proving to be most helpful in solving crimes such as burglary. In 2006-7 more than 44,000 samples from crime scenes had matched suspects' ...
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Expanded DNA testing threatens innocent
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008By LONNIE RANDOLPH | In early July, Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed a bill that would have required the state to collect DNA samples from people simply arrested for — but not convicted of — felonies and certain other crimes, and add their DNA profiles to state and national databases. The NAACP could not have agreed more with the veto. As Gov. Sanford pointed out in his veto letter, fewer than half ...
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DNA contract reveals plan to probe offenders’ families
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Now you see it, now you don't: A proposed $300,000 contract between Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and a British DNA lab provided for software that would help track down criminals by identifying their relatives. The method, called "familial searching," is rarely used in the United States because of privacy concerns, although California Attorney General Jerry Brown has said he would consider opening the state database to such searches on ...
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DNA database details of children ’should be deleted’
Friday, September 19th, 2008By Mark Hookham | Lancashire Police should delete the DNA records of around 4,000 youngsters held on a computer database, the Liberal Democrats have demanded. Delegates at the party's Bournemouth conference overwhelmingly backed a motion to strip out the samples of all under-16s, unless they have been convicted of a violent or sexual offence. Under current laws, samples can be taken and recorded from youngsters who have been arrested for any ...
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DNA Testing Expands to Lesser Crimes
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008By Dan Morse | While unusual, here is a crime as alleged by Montgomery County police that joins the list of things harder to get away with in the era of DNA evidence: Man walks into a Starbucks, says he wants to apply for a job. He's given an application and a complimentary cup of coffee. Minutes later, he walks around the ...
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Groups protest DNA collection law
Friday, September 5th, 2008By Laura Smitherman | The Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights activists criticized yesterday Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan for implementing a new program for collecting DNA samples from crime suspects, accusing the administration of turning its back on hard-fought compromises for safeguards and oversight. O'Malley made the DNA bill one of his priorities this year and worked hard to win passage of the legislation ...
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France marches online to protest ’security’ database
Friday, September 5th, 2008Personal privacy is, of course, a major issue these days, particularly when it comes to authorities gathering data in schemes such as the UK's proposed identity card program or France's Edvidge electronic database. Edvidge, the French government's new repository of information aimed at keeping an eye on citizens who it deems merit surveillance, is currently drawing mass protests two months after it was signed into law. Kids too Among other things, it ...
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Big brother, big bother?
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Is the proposed Communications Data Bill a step too far for the British way of life? Timothy Pitt-Payne reports By Timothy Pitt-Payne | On 15 July this year, the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, published his annual report. At the launch of the report he commented on the Government’s proposed Communications Data Bill. Referring to media suggestions that the Bill would make provision for a massive government database holding details of everyone’s ...
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DNA databases shut after identities compromised
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Nature | Several DNA databases run by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, the Wellcome Trust in London and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were closed to public access last week after researchers showed it is possible to extract the supposedly confidential identities of the patients involved. The databases list the frequencies of small DNA variations called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from ...
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40,000 innocent children on police DNA files
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Yorkshire Post | The national DNA database contains the profiles of almost 40,000 innocent children, the Home Office has admitted. Junior Minister Meg Hillier said the profiles of an estimated 39,095 10 to 17-year-olds who "had not been convicted, cautioned, received a final warning/reprimand and had no charge pending against them" were on the database. Opposition parties said it was evidence the Government was building a national ...
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Why DNA databases are doomed
Friday, August 8th, 2008By Glyn Moody | I've been against DNA databases for years, but I've always felt that the generic arguments I've been using were a little pallid, shall we say. And now, in what amounts to almost a throwaway comment, the wonderful Reg gives me what I've been looking for: Although police are keen to bang the drum for cases where DNA evidence has proved vital, there are obvious ...
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