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•8 reviews since Sep 4, 2007
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nooz rated 12 months ago- You can get my DNA from my cold, dead body - how about that brother Sedley?
- dornorozeto rated 12 months ago
- Oh, my. At this rate, we can expect the first precogs to be commissioned sometime in the next five years.
- eon-maki rated 12 months ago
- "The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said." As if thing's weren't looking bad enough already....
- rayshouse rated 12 months ago
- The debate about having a country wide DNA database.
- The-Owl rated 12 months ago
- All UK must be on DNA database 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 England and Wales database of 4m people's DNA - whether convicted or acquitted - was "indefensible". He added it would be fairer to include "everybody, guilty or innocent" on it. Downing Street said the database helped tackle crime, but there were no plans for a voluntary national or compulsory universal database. A spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown said to expand it would create "huge logistical and bureaucratic issues" and civil liberty concerns.
- ericthehamster rated 12 months ago
- Heard this on the news this morning, and couldn't believe my ears. Have our liberties been eroded so much over the last decade that a respected senior judge can think it acceptable to suggest that the DNA of every individual should be stored on a database? The suggestion is that this cover not only every person in the UK, but also eveyone visting the UK. I would be happy to support anyone no longer wishing to visit this country, were this to be a reality (and given the chaos and delays at airports already due to additional security measures, it will be interesting to see how this would be enforced). I agree that the current database is indefensible, but the answer is surely not to invade the privacy of every individual in order to justify a dubious policy? From the page: "The DNA database - which is 12 years old - grows by 30,000 samples a month taken from suspects or recovered from crime scenes. It is the largest in the world. The data of everyone arrested for a recordable offence in England and Wales - all but the most minor offences - remains on the system regardless of their age, the seriousness of their alleged offence, and whether or not they were prosecuted. It includes some 24,000 samples from young people between 10 and 17 years old, who were arrested but never convicted. In Scotland, DNA samples taken when people are arrested must be destroyed if the individual is not charged or convicted." Bravo to Scotland.
- pattenicus rated 12 months ago
- All your DNA Database belong a us. For Great Justice. Repeat after me; If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. Feel safer now?
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