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• Knife killers will get 25-year minimum sentence, says Jack Straw

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Home Office set to cut DNA retention to six years after climbdown The minimum prison sentence for anyone using a knife to kill is to rise from 15 years to 25, bringing it more in line with the 30-year "starting point" for those convicted of gun murders, the justice secretary, Jack Straw, has announced. The decision ...
  3 hours ago

• Is authoritarianism on ebb in the UK?

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 121
  If you read the Independent, you might come away feeling relieved that the great tide of authoritarianism that has characterised New Labours years in power is starting to ebb
  11 hours ago

• Britain passes Big Brother landmark: More than one in 10 people now on DNA database

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 148
  From Daily Mail UKA Big Brother landmark has been passed with ten per cent of the population now stored on the Government’s DNA database.In total, there are now an astonishing 5,532,847 individual profiles logged on the giant computer system - out of a population of 54million in England and Wales.Around one million ...
  1 week ago

• Britain passes Big Brother landmark: More than one in 10 people now on DNA database

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 446
  From Daily Mail UK A Big Brother landmark has been passed with ten per cent of the population now stored on the Government’s DNA database. In total, there are now an astonishing 5,532,847 individual profiles logged on the giant computer system - out of a population of 54million in England and Wales. Around ...
  1 week ago

• Will the police be taking a DNA sample from Tony McNulty’s cheek?

  
  EcoLogics — Authority: 121
  McNultys apology ought to land a cotton swab in his cheek (for the purpose of a DNA sample of the kind he was intent on making everyone else take), and the rest of his body in a long term holding facility, that is to say, in jail.
  1 week ago

• MINISTERS “LEARNING LESSONS” AS OUR SERVICE PERSONNEL DIE

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 121
  In the UK a damning report produced yesterday concluded that a “’systemic breach of the military covenant”  led to the crash of a Nimrod spy plane (example above) in Afghanistan in 2006 which killed 14 servicemen. The Nimrod exploded in mid-air near Kandahar in 2006, causing the biggest single loss of life ...
  1 week ago

• DNA of innocent still being stored

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • More than 90,000 profiles added since human rights ruling • Chief constables given 28 days to withdraw DNA guidance More than 90,000 innocent people have been added to the national DNA database since a landmark human rights ruling that keeping indefinitely the profiles of unconvicted suspects was illegal, ...
  1 week ago

• UK: One in 10 people in DNA database

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 480
  By Tom Whitehead Telegraph | Police forces in England and Wales have taken the profiles of 5.5 million people, meaning the proportion of the population on the system has passed a tenth for the first time. Overall, when profiles taken in Scotland and Northern Ireland are included, almost six million people ...
  1 week ago

• UAE collect DNA from all Residents – DNA database set to start in a year

  
  7starsdubai's Weblog — Authority: 124
  source The NationalThe UAE aims to start collecting genetic samples from residents within 12 months as part of its controversial DNA database project, the programme’s director said yesterday, making it the first country in the world to do so.Dr Ahmed al Marzooqi, the director of the National DNA Database, also said ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Crime-Fighting Leech

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 465
  David Cassuto Viktor Korotayev / Reuters File In case anyone was thinking that animal law is always depressing, here ’s a story about a leech that cracked a cold case in Tasmania.  8 years ago, a 71 year-old woman had her home invaded and was beaten and robbed.  An engorged leech was found at the scene.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Utter Moral Bankruptcy of the DNA Database

  
  open... — Authority: 538
  This is staggering: Detections using the national DNA database have fallen over the past two years despite the number of profiles increasing by 1m and its running costs doubling to £4.2m a year. A report on the database covering the years 2007-09, published today, shows that crimes cleared up as a result of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• No2ID says Home Office retreat on DNA database is no such thing

  
  People's Republic of South Devon The Peoples Republic of South Devon — Authority: 140
  The Exeter branch of No2ID got in touch about the Home Office’s announcement that it has dropped its proposal to retain the DNA profiles of innocent people for six and 12 years. In practice, they say, this leaves nearly a million people unlawfully on the National DNA Database with little prospect of having their ...
  2 weeks ago

• Detections using DNA database fall

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Crimes cleared up using genetic fingerprinting fall by 10,000 between 2006 and 2009 Detections using the national DNA database have fallen over the past two years despite the number of profiles increasing by 1m and its running costs doubling to £4.2m a year. A report on the database covering the years 2007-09, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leech convicts Tasmanian robber

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  DNA follows you everywhere!
  3 weeks ago

• Innocents on the DNA database: we win(?)

  
  D-Notice — Authority: 119
  Ive had numerous posts about the Home Offices on-going fight to keep samples of innocent people on its DNA database, in defiance of the European Court of Human Rights . Apparently, according to Liberty , the government has caved in and decided to drop the clauses in its up-coming Police and Crime Bill which ...
  3 weeks ago

• No innocent people on DNA database

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  • Civil liberty campaigners claim victory • Government promises new provisions in next crime bill Civil liberty campaigners claimed a victory today after the government announced it is dropping current proposals to retain the DNA profiles of innocent people on the national database. The Home Office has announced ...
  3 weeks ago

• FBI building system that blows away fingerprinting

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 549
  Source: Computer World The FBI plans to migrate from its IAFIS fingerprint database to a new biometrics system that will include DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans. TAMPA – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is expanding beyond its traditional fingerprint-focused collection practices ...
  3 weeks ago

• Determining human provenance

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  When dealing with the Home Office you become aware of the dim, dogged nature of a primitive life-form. Last week the department which runs the UK Border Agency issued a statement which appeared to suggest that it was retreating on the issue of gene tests being used to determine race and origin . Science and Nature ...
  3 weeks ago

• And it’s now even worse than in the post under this one…

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 437
  …if you go to Old Holborn and read this stuff. David Davis Posted in Liberty Tagged: databases, DnA database, government scumbags, intrusion, Liberty, lifestyles, New Labour, other state scumbags, surveillance
  4 weeks ago

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