dna database

Welcome to the 'dna database' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'dna database'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “dna database”

• Why the UKs “Smarter Government” Plan is Not So Clever

  
  open... — Authority: 570
  Theres no doubt that the area outside computing where the ideas underlying open source are being applied most rapidly and most successfully is that of open government. Alongside the US, which is has made great strides in this area, Australia, too, has caught the transparency bug. So what about Blighty? On Open ...
  3 days ago

• Government taking newborn DNA samples

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 141
  …The IRB board appointed to oversee research on the stored bloodspots consists almost entirely of State employees. Harrington says that makes the process questionable.“This is not a true independent professional review board,” he said.Perhaps most concerning, is the confidentiality clauses added to the new law ...
  1 week ago

• Science Weekly podcast: AC Grayling discusses the LHC, free will and leaked climate change emails

  
  Science: Science blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 109
  Philosopher and author AC Grayling is our special guest for this weeks podcast as we discuss extraterrestrial life, free-thinking, Cern and climate change. Prof Grayling will be interviewing some of the worlds top scientists in the coming weeks for a series called Exchanges at the Frontier on the BBC World ...
  1 week ago

• Exploring human identity

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Wellcome Collection, London NW1 "The question of who or what the Me is is not a simple one at all," Mark Twain once remarked as he contemplated his own individuality. And you can see his point. The factors that produce a persons identity are elusive, a vague mixture of nature, nurture and random events. Ask the ...
  1 week ago

• Arrest Offenders Randomly and “INSERT INTO UK_DNA_DATABASE”

  
  ProgrammerFish - Everything that's programmed! — Authority: 424
  You probably might be wondering what the title really means and if you haven’t yet read the news about how UK police officers are on the hunt for past offenders (typically young blacks) not for interrogation or trying them in courts but only because their DNA’s will ‘enrich’ the national DNA database. You ...
  1 week ago

• Arrest Offenders Randomly and “INSERT INTO UK_DNA_DATABASE”

  
  ProgrammerFish - Everything that's programmed! — Authority: 424
  You probably might be wondering what the title really means and if you haven’t yet read the news about how UK police officers are on the hunt for past offenders (typically young blacks) not for interrogation or trying them in courts but only because their DNA’s will ‘enrich’ the national DNA database. You ...
  1 week ago

• Letters: Holding the police to account

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Alan Johnson refers to the case of Sean Hodgson as someone wrongly convicted who would "probably not have been cleared without DNA analysis" ( My DNA dilemma , 25 November). This may well be true, but it has nothing to do with the debate over DNA retention. Hodgson wasnt cleared because the police had been storing the ...
  1 week ago

• Guardian Daily: Britains expanding DNA database

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  This week the Human Genetics Commission reported that police are routinely arresting people to gather DNA evidence. We hear from one of the authors Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley . In the studio for the Guardian to debate the issues raised by the report are legal affairs editor Afua Hirsch and home affairs ...
  1 week ago

• Failing our young black men | Peter Herbert

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The news that most young black men are on the DNA database is further evidence of the failure of a policing and prisons agenda The recent debate about the accuracy of the statistics as to whether half or three quarters of all young black men are on the DNA database presupposes that this is of only marginal ...
  2 weeks ago

• The DNA snatchers: Police arresting innocents just to grab genetic details for Big Brother database

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 141
  Police are arresting innocent people in order to get their hands on as many DNA samples as possible, senior Government advisers revealed last night.The Human Genetics Commission said the Big Brother tactic was creating a ’spiral of suspicion’ among the public.The panel – which contains some of Britain’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big Brother DNA Database Grows With Every Arrest

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 149
  From Daily Mail UK Police are arresting innocent people in order to get their hands on as many DNA samples as possible, senior Government advisers revealed last night. The Human Genetics Commission said the Big Brother tactic was creating a ’spiral of suspicion’ among the public. The panel - which contains ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big Brother DNA Database Grows With Every Arrest

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 149
  From Daily Mail UKPolice are arresting innocent people in order to get their hands on as many DNA samples as possible, senior Government advisers revealed last night.The Human Genetics Commission said the Big Brother tactic was creating a ’spiral of suspicion’ among the public.The panel - which contains some of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alan Johnsons dilemma is unbalanced | Henry Porter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The DNA database does not balance liberty with the needs of the state, the states unreasonable demand has eroded liberty When a politician talks about balance I reach for my taser. The word "balance" has become one of the primary means of distorting the political debate and eroding the stock of liberty. "Today, on ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Proportionate Response to "Proportionate"

  
  open... — Authority: 570
  There is a nauseating piece of troll-bait in the Guardian today. Its called "My DNA dilemma", and in it Alan Johnson attempts to convince readers he suffers as much as any of us bleeding-heart liberals at the thought of the terrible, terrible sacrifices of freedom we must make for the sake of security. I wont ...
  2 weeks ago

• The DNA snatchers: Police arresting innocents just to grab genetic details for Big Brother database

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  Police are arresting innocent people in order to get their hands on as many DNA samples as possible, senior Government advisers revealed last night. The Human Genetics Commission said the Big Brother tactic was creating a ’spiral of suspicion’ among the public. The panel – which contains some of Britain’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• CCTV – Keeping Us All Safe From…

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 485
  …pub band members who might have possibly had a gun, or at any rate a gun-shaped object, well, be fair, it was dark out and the resolution on those things isn’t great, and hey, if you pay peanuts you get… A band who had just performed in a Staffordshire pub spent the night at a police station over ...
  2 weeks ago

• My DNA dilemma | Alan Johnson

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The liberty-security balance is centuries old. On the DNA database, I think were getting it right As Willie Whitelaw once noted, balancing the rights of the individual against the rights of society as a whole is one of the most difficult responsibilities home secretaries face. It has been a constant tension faced ...
  2 weeks ago

• 75% of Black Males Under 35 on Police DNA Database

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 606
  A shocking 75 percent of all black males between the ages of 18 and 35 are now on the police’s DNA database, according to a report published by the Human Genetics Commission. According to the Home Office, the national DNA database is a “key police intelligence tool” which helps to “quickly identify offenders, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Liberalism in Action - Jo Shaw and Jenny Willott MP help people remove DNA records

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 175
  Thats quite a scary headline. I must surely been writing about some horrendous totalitarian regime thats storing up peoples genetic material for nefarious purposes. Actually no. Stephen has today highlighted that our very own Police Force is arresting people for no real good reason just so they can nab their DNA for ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK: Police arrest so they can boost DNA database, warns watchdog

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Tom Whitehead reports: Officers will arrest individuals for “everything” because they then have to power to take DNA samples, even if they wouldn’t have been detained under other circumstances. The Human Genetics Commission (HGC) warned the alarming practice, which was revealed by a retired senior police ...
  2 weeks ago

Comments about dna database