Day: April 1, 2014

Is the use of DNA analysers on log-on in breach of data protection law?

Am I the only one that is increasingly worried about the uncontrolled use of DNA as a biometric identifier for security devices and log-on routines? These are being introduced as part of the next development in tablets and mobile phones like the iPhone. It all started five years ago in the USA when Yale, one of the world’s leading lock-makers, started experimenting with a kind of spittoon attached to a DNA analyser and one of its advanced electronic industrial locks.

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