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MPs flag privacy concerns in Freedoms Bill

...of Freedoms Bill to reform how it retains information on the national DNA database may not ensure compliance with the UK's human rights obligations... Read more

10 October, 2011 by Sade Laja

Home Office: Police will retain data on innocent people

...rather than keeping an innocent person's complete profile on the national DNA database, it will be retained in an anonymised form, which would leave... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Government restricts 'snooping' surveillance

...three years, said the spokesman. The government wants to create a National DNA Database Strategy Board to oversee the deletion and retention of data. The... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

ID cards scrappage bill set for December

...includes plans to "adopt the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database" and further regulation of CCTV, is scheduled to be passed by... Read more

30 July, 2010 by Kable

Scotland opens forensic science centre

...a police spokesperson said on Monday. The centre will administer Scotland's DNA database, while over 100 forensic scientists will work at the facility. The... Read more

7 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Photos: ID cards database shredded and burnt

...expected to end storage of innocent people's details on the National DNA Database and to regulate the use of CCTV cameras. Photo: Nick Heath... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Police tech agency chasing £1bn savings by 2015

...Computer, the national fingerprint database, the Airwave radio system and the National DNA Database. Since it was established in 2007, the NPIA has been able... Read more

30 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Blunkett calls for European DNA database of suspects

...Secretary David Blunkett is calling for the creation of an EU-wide DNA database of criminals and terror suspects to aid the government's war... Read more

6 July, 2004 by Andy McCue

DNA pioneer 'deeply worried' by database policy

...perplexed and deeply worried" about the existing management policy of the National DNA Database. He was providing evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs... Read more

4 February, 2010 by Kable

Nearly 1m people's DNA may be wiped off database

Following an EU ruling, the DNA details of around 850,000 people suspected of a crime but later cleared could be removed from the UK's database Read more

8 December, 2008 by Nick Heath

MP slams "out of control" DNA database

...s discretion. The total number of records on the UK's national DNA database passed the three million mark this year - just over five per... Read more

20 February, 2006 by Andy McCue

Police chief: DNA database should not be extended

The police officer leading policy on the National DNA Database has said it should not be extended to the entire population... Read more

6 January, 2010 by Kable

Home Office to review DNA database, RIPA

...speech, Smith also conceded that the issue of the UK's vast DNA database "had been put back in the spotlight" by a recent European... Read more

16 December, 2008 by David Meyer

DNA database found to breach rights

...destroying the DNA records of those people who are currently on the DNA database and who are innocent of any crime Read more

5 December, 2008

Lib Dems criticise 'shambolic' DNA database

The Liberal Democrats party has said it has evidence that the DNA database is not helping to solve crimes. The party has released research... Read more

4 December, 2008 by Kable

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