UK to hold DNA of innocent people for 6 years

Britain said Wednesday it plans to get rid of DNA profiles of most innocent people after six years in response to a European Court ruling that said keeping the information indefinitely was a violation of human rights.

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Britain to remove some DNA profiles from database

Britain bowed to a court ruling and promised Thursday to remove the DNA records of hundreds of thousands of innocent people from its vast national database of genetic information — but many will have to wait up to 12 years for their details to be deleted.

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Almost one in four black children over 10 have had their profiles placed on the police DNA database. The disclosure has sparked claims from the chair of an influential parliamentary committee that the disparity with white children is undermining social integration.

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We'd all like to help the police to do their job well. They, in turn, would like to have a massive database with DNA profiles from everyone who has been arrested, but not convicted of a crime.

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Law enforcement officials are vastly expanding their collection of DNA to include millions more people who have been arrested or detained but not yet convicted.

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non crimanals will be added along with misdomeners.

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The Federal Bureau of Intelligence will expand its DNA database to include samples taken from individuals who have not been convicted of crimes, the New York Times reported Saturday afternoon.

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Four months have passed since the European court of human rights landed a unanimous and unusually pointed judgment damning the "blanket and indiscriminate" DNA database in England and Wales, which keeps genetic tabs not just on criminals but on anyone falling under police suspici …

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LONDON — The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously on Thursday that Britain's policy of gathering and storing the fingerprints and DNA of all criminal suspects — even those who turn out to be not guilty — was a violation of the human right to privacy.

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The police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland face having to wipe the profiles of nearly one million innocent people from the DNA database after a landmark European ruling.

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Valuable intelligence on thousands of suspected terrorists risks being lost because of backlogs at a little-known US federal government database that processes DNA samples gathered in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

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What say you? Do you want to provide free access to your genetic records? How do you feel about this in terms of ethics? Do you perceive any problems with sharing this information? Do you see any positives? Do you feel potential positives outweigh potential negatives?

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The national DNA database contains the profiles of almost 40,000 innocent children, the Home Office said today.

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Badly behaved children as young as five should be recorded on the national DNA database, a police chief said yesterday.

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Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert.

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There are no plans to extend the DNA database to contain information from all people, the Home Office has said. Calls for its content to be made universal have followed the conviction of two murderers using DNA evidence.

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Orwell and Huxley were imaginative lunatics. A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus. There is no coming police state

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The government must prevent police from storing the profiles of innocent people on the national DNA database, an influential group of experts has said.

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A civil liberties storm erupted yesterday after a senior judge called for the genetic details of every person in Britain, and all visitors to the country, to be added to the national DNA database.

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The entire UK population and every visitor to the country should be on the national DNA database, a top judge has said. Lord Justice Sedley said: "Where we are at the moment is indefensible.

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The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said. Lord Justice Sedley said the current database, which holds DNA from crime suspects and scenes, was "indefensible" because it was unfair and inconsistent.

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Are UK citizens the most watched on Earth? why is there so much surveillance of individuals in society going on? does Google's new service, Street View, add to surveillance by allowing anyone to zoom in and see people's faces,license plate numbers etc on a given street?

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Civil liberties groups are warning that the details of every Briton could soon be on the national DNA database, raising fresh concerns of a 'surveillance society'.

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...It could be the 4 million closed-circuit television cameras, or maybe the spy drones hovering overhead, but one way or another Britons know they are being watched. All the time. Everywhere.

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-- Chinese claiming Confucius for an ancestor can now use a genetic test to prove a direct blood connection to the grandfather of Chinese social mores, a state newspaper said Friday.

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