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UK DNA Database Needs Own Law says Report
London :: United Kingdom | 12 days ago
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Britain’s DNA database was developed piecemeal, and without a specific law binding it, ballooned into the largest such database in the world through "function creep", says a new report. The five-million-strong database should be governed by a specific...
Tags: dna profiling, dna database, NDNAD, policing service, dna evidence, United Kingdom, London, National DNA database, Association of Chief Police Officers, DNA, United Kingdom National DNA Database, Biometrics, Police
Failing our young black men | Peter Herbert
London :: United Kingdom | 13 days ago
Credibility Failing our young black men The news that most young black men are on the DNA database is further evidence of the failure of a policing and prisons agenda The recent debate about the accuracy of the statistics as to whether half or three quarters of...
Tags: black men, young black, dna database, United Kingdom, London, Law in the United Kingdom, War on Drugs, Anti-Social Behaviour Order, Youth justice in England and Wales, Social Issues, Law enforcement in the United States, Prison
UK Police Arresting People Just To Add To DNA Database?
London :: CA :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility But it's not just on the accessing or revealing of data that this can happen...Jabberwocky alerts us to the news that police in the UK have supposedly been arresting innocent people just to add them to the UK's DNA database . The report looking into this,...
Tags: dna database, dna dilemma, London, DNA, United Kingdom National DNA Database, DNA profiling, Forensic software, Biometrics, Genetics, Personal identification, Murder of Teresa de Simone, S and Marper v United Kingdom, Law enforcement in the United Kingdom, Helices, Molecular biology, Scattering, Privacy, Diffraction, Law Crime
'Arrests made just to get DNA samples'
London :: United Kingdom | 15 days ago
Credibility DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, the genetics watchdog said in a report today. The Human Genetics Commission, which advises the Government on the social, legal...
Tags: dna database, Britain, genetic commission, national dna, United Kingdom, London, DNA, Forensic software, National DNA database, DNA profiling, Recordable offence, Law enforcement, Biometrics, Personal identification, Law Crime, Government database, Privacy, Genetics, Social Issues, United Kingdom National DNA Database, Police, Criminal record, Criminal law, Arrest
Q&A: DNA database
Brussels :: Belgium | 15 days ago
Credibility The database, set up in 1995 and overseen by The National Policing Improvement Agency — the government quango for police technology — contains the DNA of 4.8 million people...About 30,000 profiles are added each month How much does the database cost to...
Tags: dna database, Britain, dna profile, Lesley Molseed, Belgium, Brussels, Personal identification, Forensic software, Ronald Castree, DNA profiling, Murder of Lesley Molseed, Murders, Biometrics, DNA, Law Crime
The startling Human Genetics Commission figures that don’t add up
London :: United Kingdom | 15 days ago
Credibility It is stated, without any qualification, in the opening paragraph of the foreword to today’s report from the Human Genetics Commission. But where did the commission and Professor Jonathan Montgomery, its chairman, get their figures? Commons Home Affairs...
Tags: young black, black men, Human Genetics Commission, dna database, EHRC, United Kingdom, London, Personal identification, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Government Equalities Office, DNA, Social Issues
Bill would require DNA sample from N.C. suspects
Gastonia :: NC :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility Crime lab computers whir as DNA from the murder scene is compared to millions of suspect samples. A mug shot flashes across the screen, and detectives have the killer in handcuffs before the closing credits. The technology that turns television crime...
Tags: Wil Neumann, North Carolina, dna sample, N.C. Metropolitan Police Chiefs, Sarah Preston, Gastonia, Forensic software, Privacy, Combined DNA Index System, DNA profiling, DNA database, Biometrics, DNA, Personal identification, Law Crime
The case for a complete DNA database | Gavin Phillipson
London :: United Kingdom | 19 days ago
Credibility The case for a complete DNA database At the moment, the arbitrary process of adding to the database breeds injustice. Perhaps we owe it to society to all be included The national DNA database is once again being hotly debated. The government is now proposing...
Tags: dna database, dna evidence, United Kingdom, London, Biometrics, Personal identification, DNA profiling, National DNA database, United Kingdom National DNA Database, Forensic software, Privacy, DNA, Law Crime
Kin's DNA cracks crime, raises concerns
Denver :: CO :: USA | 21 days ago
Credibility Here's how it happened, the Denver district attorney's office said: In February 2008, two cars were broken into in the city. Police found blood at both scenes and ran the samples through DNA databases but couldn't find a match. Then, as part of a study...
Tags: Mitch Morrissey, family dna, district attorney, dna database, Denver, family member, Genetics, Helices, Scattering, DNA profiling, Forensic software, Privacy, DNA, Law Crime
DNA database: Acid test
London :: United Kingdom | 27 days ago
Credibility Alan Johnson's sacking of Dr David Nutt, followed by multiple resignations from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs that he chaired, is still reverberating around Whitehall. Yesterday a new front opened when the home secretary announced his latest...
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