"The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said."
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" Lord Justice Sedley told BBC News the current England and Wales database, which holds DNA from crime suspects and scenes, was "indefensible".
He added it would be fairer to include "everybody, guilty or innocent" on it.
The Home Office said the database of four million profiles had helped solve criminal cases, but to expand it would raise logistical and ethical issues.
The DNA database - which is 12 years old - grows by 30,000 samples a month taken from suspects or recovered from crime scenes.
There has already been criticism of the database - the largest in the world - because people who are found innocent usually cannot get their details removed. "
- i for one am totally against this
why should anyone who has never been convicted of, let alone charged with, a crime have their dna stored on a government database ?
i mean, just because some technology could prove helpful in solving a crime etc does that mean it should be no matter the effect on civil liberties.
for example, it is conceivable that, at some point in the near future, it would be possible to insert into everyone a GPS tracking chip - sure that might be handy for the government to control its citizens
but there is no way i would ever want that kind of technology being used in the UK
and the same goes for a compulsory UK dna database, taking samples from babies at birth etc
(and visitors to the country too - i'm sure that's likely to encourage tourists to come to the uk, not)
- they're not getting my dna, no chance
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" Lord Justice Sedley told BBC News the current England and Wales database, which holds DNA from crime suspects and scenes, was "indefensible".
He added it would be fairer to include "everybody, guilty or innocent" on it.
The Home Office said the database of four million profiles had helped solve criminal cases, but to expand it would raise logistical and ethical issues.
The DNA database - which is 12 years old - grows by 30,000 samples a month taken from suspects or recovered from crime scenes.
There has already been criticism of the database - the largest in the world - because people who are found innocent usually cannot get their details removed. "
- i for one am totally against this
why should anyone who has never been convicted of, let alone charged with, a crime have their dna stored on a government database ?
i mean, just because some technology could prove helpful in solving a crime etc does that mean it should be no matter the effect on civil liberties.
for example, it is conceivable that, at some point in the near future, it would be possible to insert into everyone a GPS tracking chip - sure that might be handy for the government to control its citizens
but there is no way i would ever want that kind of technology being used in the UK
and the same goes for a compulsory UK dna database, taking samples from babies at birth etc
(and visitors to the country too - i'm sure that's likely to encourage tourists to come to the uk, not)
- they're not getting my dna, no chance
