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• 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 ...
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• Big Brother DNA Database Grows With Every Arrest

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 150
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• A Proportionate Response to "Proportionate"

  
  open... — Authority: 559
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 75% of Black Males Under 35 on Police DNA Database

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 604
  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, ...
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• Liberalism in Action - Jo Shaw and Jenny Willott MP help people remove DNA records

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 176
  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 ...
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• UK: Police arrest so they can boost DNA database, warns watchdog

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 152
  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 ...
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• U.K. cops arrest people ‘just for the DNA’

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Britain has built the worlds biggest DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, a watchdog said. read more
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• Police arrest people to get DNA

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Which police force takes the most samples? Police officers are now routinely arresting people in order to add their DNA sample to the national police database, an inquiry will allege tomorrow. The review of the national DNA database by the governments human genetics commission also raises the possibility that ...
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• DNA database: which police force takes the most samples?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Millions of people in the UK have samples on the national DNA database. Find out where they were taken • Get the data If youre arrested now, the chances are the police officer will swab your cheek with a cotton bud and send it off to be analysed. You will become part of the UKs burgeoning national DNA database. ...
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• The case for a complete DNA database | Gavin Phillipson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  At the moment, the arbitrary process of adding to the database breeds injustice. Perhaps we owe it to society to all be included The national DNA database is once again being hotly debated. The government is now proposing that the DNA profile of innocent people (those arrested but never convicted) should be kept for ...
  6 days ago

• Sometimes we should respect the law

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Anti-DNA database campaigners have got their arguments in a twist Controversy over the DNA database putters on. But I do wish that those arguing against it would stop trotting out the idea that "we are all innocent until proven guilty". If you kill your gran and bury her in the cellar, you are not innocent just ...
  1 week ago

• Queen’s speech to be Brown’s last-ditch effort to repair his reputation

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov. 18 (ANI): In a bid to rescue his ruined political reputation before the next general election, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will make a final attempt when the Queen delivers a speech outlining Labour’s moves for new legislation.But the speech has already been slammed by many.The Daily Star quoted ...
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• What the British State DNA database is for

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 439
  Michael Winning (Not too many tupos I hope,) This article may disappear . No really. Apparently it’s done so once already* and may do again. Legiron who Ive just found has posted thispiece here, which tells of a woman, a lawyer in fact , who now can’t get a job as she’s “on the DNA database”. Just that ...
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• Retaining DNA wont get rid of rape | Lisa Longstaff

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  We are told retaining DNA samples helps catch rapists – but rape survivors pain should not be manipulated to attack civil liberties The Home Office has had to reduce the time the police hold the DNA of people not convicted of any crime. But six years is still unacceptably long and it is still unclear how many ...
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• UK carries on defying Europe on DNA | Henry Porter

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Last night the inventor of DNA profiling, Sir Alec Jeffreys, condemned the governments plans, announced yesterday , to keep the DNA of innocent people on the national DNA database for six years in defiance of a ruling by the European court of human rights. Jeffreys was taking part in a panel discussion to ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog — Authority: 432
  James Slack - 28th October 2009A 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 ...
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• U.K. Government Announces New Proposals for DNA Retention

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  A series of proposals designed to ensure the right people are on the National DNA Database, as well as defining when people should come off has been announced by British Home Secretary Alan Johnson. DNA and the use of forensics play an essential role in fighting crime and providing justice for victims. The UK has ...
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