UK Government Plans to Keep DNA Samples of Innocent

Government plans to keep DNA samples of innocent
DNA samples of innocent to be kept on file

The government is planning to get around a European court ruling that condemned Britain's retention of the DNA profiles of more than 800,000 innocent people by keeping the original samples used to create the database, the Guardian has learned.

A damning ruling last December criticised the "blanket and indiscriminate nature" of the UK's current DNA database - which includes DNA from those never charged with an offence - and said the government had overstepped acceptable limits of storing data for crime detection.

Since its foundation in 1995, the database has become the world's largest. Of its 5 million entries, more than a million are children and 857,000 innocent people.

February 27, 2009

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