your handy DNA database 101

[libellum]

The Home Office has just announced its revised plans to keep the DNA profiles of innocent people on the National DNA Database, despite an EU ruling that this constitutes a breach of human rights. The new policy, under which DNA samples can be taken from any individual stopped by police for an arrestable offence, permits retention of these samples

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[marrog]

I'm assuming from your public crossposting that I can repost this, but would you prefer a link to here or to Police State UK?

[libellum]

I would have said link to PSUK, which I see you've already done - thanks, I really appreciate it.

I'd originally intended just to write about the new policy, but because I hadn't got round to writing about any of the previous stages in the saga, I kind of had to start from the beginning to put everything in context. After spending nearly 7 hours on research and writing I was kicking myself for wasting my time - surely everyone already knows all this? So it's good to know that some people found it useful.

[smhwpf]

Seriously messed up. Thanks for keeping us informaed on this, as so many other topics.

It seems to have become a habit amoung a number of notionally democratic governments, ours included, of taking rulings from the highest courts as polite suggestions.

77 percent of young black men... are on the database

That is a truly appalling statistic.