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Thursday, August 7th, 2008By Auslan Cramb | Stephen House, Chief Constable of Strathclyde, said that storing the genetic profiles of every man, woman and child would help catch more criminals. He also called for Scotland to adopt the English DNA system that allows the profiles of suspects to be kept even if they are not charged with any wrongdoing. Police in Scotland have to destroy the DNA records of innocent people but can keep ...
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Infosecurity adviser says there are greater intrusions to fear than the DNA database
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Mike Barwise, from Infosecurity Adviser, the online forum run by the Infosecurity Europe team, has revealed he is less concerned about the privacy issues that the National DNA Database creates than other planned government files. "The media seems preoccupied at the moment about people's DNA being stored centrally, but the reality is that the database is really a one-dimensional invasion of citizen's privacy," he said. "Two-dimensional databases, such as the planned telecommunications ...
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MP accuses Government of building DNA database by stealth
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008By Shahid Naqvi | A Tory MP whose Black Country uncle was murdered more than a year ago has accused the Government of creating a “DNA database by stealth” after police failed to return his genetic details taken during the investigation. Greg Hands, MP for Hammersmith and Fulham, allowed detectives with West Midlands Police to take his fingerprints and swabs after widower Les Ince was found stabbed to death with a ...
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DNA database ‘criminalises’ the innocent
Thursday, July 31st, 2008By Andrea-Marie Vassou | The DNA profiles of people who have committed no crime should be removed from the national DNA database (NDNAD), a report has said. The Citizens’ Inquiry report, overseen by the Human Genetics Commission (HGC), also said that the length of time that the DNA of people who have committed an offence should remain on the database "should be ...
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Should we trust DNA?
Monday, July 28th, 2008SFGate | The role of DNA testing in the justice system has seemed unassailable - who can argue with the odds of two people sharing the same genetic markers being, in some cases, as low as 1 in 113 billion? So DNA testing has been used to convict defendants in cases that are otherwise scant of evidence, and it's been used to spring prisoners who rotted in jail ...
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Police chiefs against universal DNA database
Friday, June 27th, 2008The majority of police chiefs are against a universal DNA database for the people of Britain. At a meeting during the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) annual conference, 61 per cent of police chiefs voted against the idea of putting all UK residents on the national database. Only 38 per cent of those present at the vote supported a universal database with one per cent unsure. The national DNA database is a ...
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Government rejects calls for greater debate on data sharing
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008By Tom Young | The government has rejected a call from the Joint Human Rights Committee that any legislation that permits greater data sharing between Whitehall departments should be open to debate in parliament. The committee's contention is that any such moves should be considered as primary legislation, which is subject to scrutiny by parliament and open to amendments. Secondary legislation simply amends existing acts and does not ...
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The Surveillance Society report: DNA discussions
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
By Anthony Hildebrand | The report recognises the National DNA Database as a “valuable investigative tool, particularly in relation to police efforts to solve older cases”
“But the sensitive nature of the information which may be yielded by DNA heightens the degree of responsibility borne by the Government,” it says. “The Home Office must work with the National Policing Improvement Agency ...
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Take innocent people’s DNA off database, says Welsh MP
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
IC Wales | INNOCENT people would have their DNA taken off the Government’s controversial database under plans put forward by a Welsh MP. Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cardiff Central, will present a private Bill in the Commons today to reform the way the huge DNA register is run.
Almost one in 10 people in Wales have their data ...
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Committee calls for database prudence
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Kable's Government Computing | The government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only for as long as is necessary, the Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended. The committee says that decisions to create new databases, to start sharing data or to increase surveillance of people ...
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European court threat to British DNA database
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
By Sean O'Neill | Murder, rape and child abuse investigations will be hampered if a European court rules that more than 500,000 DNA samples should be removed from Britain’s National DNA Database, a senior police chief has told The Times.
In his first interview since standing down as chairman of the database, Tony Lake gave warning that serious crimes would ...
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Australian police use national DNA data to solve crimes
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Police in Australia's state of New South Wales have begun using a national D-N-A database to help investigate unsolved crimes. The database matches evidence collected at crime scenes with criminal profiles to track down offenders who may have moved interstate.
New South Wales State Police Minister David Campbell says the national database is helping solve crimes across Australia.
"This is about breaking down state ...
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Criminal DNA left unchecked for 13 months
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
PSCA | A report has found "significant shortcomings" in the Crown Prosecution's Service's (CPS) data handling. In January 2007 Dutch police sent a disc containing 2,159 DNA profiles from crime scenes so the UK police could analyse them. However, the report, which was undertook by the CPS chief executive Peter Lewis, found checks on the DNA profiles did not ...
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Outrage in UK over staff blacklisting database
Monday, May 12th, 2008
By Niall Byrne | Last week the announcement that several UK retailers were collaborating on compiling a database of employees dismissed over suspicion of theft or fraud caused furore amongst the public, trade unions and civil liberties groups. The database is the brainchild of Action Against Business Crime (AABC), the national organisation for Business ...
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The Surveillance Society Does Not Work
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons government officials implement such measures.
Which begs the question: How can the Government justify such spending when it also imposes an increasing risk to our personal ...
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