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Big Brother UK: Police now
hold DNA 'fingerprints' of 4.5m Britons
MATTHEW HICKLEY and KIRSTY
WALKER
UK
Daily Mail
Monday November 5, 2007
More than one million people's genetic fingerprints have been
added to the police DNA database in only ten months.
The "Big Brother" system, already the biggest in the
world, now permanently stores the details of more than 4.5million
individuals.
The rise is the equivalent of 150 new entries every hour. The
database now covers one in 13 of the population - around 7.5 per
cent.
The astonishing pace of growth has intensified concerns that
the Government plans to create a universal genetic database by
stealth, building a system which treats every citizen as a potential
criminal from the day they are born.
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Although the database is a crime-fighting tool, producing around
3,000 matches a month with samples taken from crime scenes, around
a third of all the DNA stored is taken from individuals who were
not charged with any offence, and have no criminal record.
Critics raised particular concerns over the huge rise in the
number of children on the database. It now includes 150,000 under-16s.
Full
article here.
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