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Guardian (UK): Police to continue to hold DNA of innocent people

Submitted by MacRonin on November 13, 2009 - 1:58pm
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Guardian (UK): Police to continue to hold DNA of innocent people: Via Privacy Lives.

The Guardian reports that the UK Home Office “ministers confirmed they want to see the DNA profiles of innocent people kept on the national database for six years, after failing to persuade parliament to back a longer period of up to 12 years for the most serious offences.” Also, the ministers said “in the case of those arrested under terrorism legislation or national security provisions,” those individuals’ “DNA profiles will in future be kept indefinitely.”

Here’s some background: Last December, the European Court of Human Rights made the decision (pdf) that said that retaining innocent individuals’ genetic data in the UK National DNA Database was a violation of human rights, specifically “the right to respect for his private and family life” set out in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (pdf). The decision affects individuals age 10 or older who have been acquitted or had charges against them dropped after their arrest in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland.

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