Indefinite retention produces a DNA database that spans the population.
4 December 2009
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Most citizens in the UK should expect to be linked to the proposed DNA database. This is the conclusion I have reached when considering a policy that permits indefinite retention of DNA data of those who have committed “recordable criminal offences” (as defined by the Home Secretary, see this week’s blogs). To show that this prospect is inevitable let’s go back to some official statistics. The first one is: “Research recently carried out on men born in 1953 revealed that
