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DNA database to remove innocent people
BillieTheBot
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In rather excellent news the EU Court of Human Rights has said that we should not be keeping innocent peoples DNA on file.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7764069.stm
If we are going to have a DNA database then we need to discuss the plans for it openly, not just allow the Police to pick up more and more people to add to it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7764069.stm
If we are going to have a DNA database then we need to discuss the plans for it openly, not just allow the Police to pick up more and more people to add to it.
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That is indeed true, but if we want a DNA database which includes people who have never been convicted of a crime then the government should come out and say that. We could all be swabbed and everyone including all MP's put on the database. Except of course that the government knows full well we dont want that, so they are using this method to gradually build up the database without anyone really noticing.
Yep, we should either have that all of us are on or just convicted criminals. Given that it has helped catch some particually nasty rapist/ murderers I'd be willing to give up a tiny bit of freedom for the former.
If, and thats an absolutely massive if, they could make sure that the database was completely in the control of an independant agency and not the Police. And if they could make sure to get everyones DNA correctly stored and labeled, then maybe I would support it.
But given this governments record with big computer projects I very much doubt they could do it right.
It might, its certainly possible that someone on there who is now innocent could go on to rape or murder. But there are limits to what we allow the state to do in their efforts to fight crime.
Don't care either way, as long as the police have access to it. Sure they'll have to be safeguards, but these safeguards can be implemented by the police (giving that afik they already control car registration, fingerprints and other databases)
that's a technical issue rather than an ethical one and as large computer projects become the norm Government will get more succesful at it (from my experience the last five or six years Government expertise has come on leaps and bounds).
lol great joke
In other words, these bastards plan to ignore it. The Government claims that DNA and fingerprinting should play an important role in fighting crime. Well Jacqui, you'd be right on that one. Of course, there is this rather minor issue of whether the people whose DNA you're taking have actually done anything that should concern the authorities, isn't there? Even a vacuous hollow excuse for a human being like you should know that. By the way, I notice that her boss has been very quiet about this - it's nice to see him once again living up to his name as a coward, isn't it?
On goes the march of Big Brother...
it's more a case of a blanket ban isn't allowed, i think it's to do with encouraging an active democracy, or it's to do with prisoners after they served time
As a matter of fact the E.C.H.R. has in many instances become the last bastion of individual freedom against State intervention. Shame that those media outlets with an axe to grind only care to report a few selected cases while ignoring thousands of others.