• UK coalition to halt computer surveillance

  The UK will reverse and restrain many of the surveillance systems that have marked its citizens out as the most watched in...

   

• Innocent man’s fury after police took fingerprint and DNA samples

  AN ex-soldier who has served in Northern Ireland and guarded the royal family is calling for a police investigation into...

   

• IBM to build UK fingerprints database

  The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has contracted IBM to build a database to support the Government’s switch to...

   

• The great big DNA database fishing expedition

  In London the Met police have been rounding up and arresting children as young as ten who have committed no crime, for the...

   

• Government may renew data sharing plans

  Speaking at a conference in London organised by the Information Commissioner’s Office, he emphasised the need for...

   

• Paying billions for our database state

  It is cost rather than privacy concerns that will save us from Labour’s megalomaniac surveillance schemes – a point...

   

• DNA database grows by 38 per cent in two years

  By Tom Young | Some 1.4 million new profiles have been added to the DNA database in the past two years – a rise of 38...

   

• The database state we’re in

  The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has published a major report on the UK’s Database State. Technology is transforming...

   

• UK’s DNA database and ID register are illegal

  The UK’s controversial DNA database and ID cards register are in breach of European data protection and rights laws,...

   

• Bus drivers issued with DNA kits

  BUS drivers in Wrexham have now been issued with DNA testing equipment to catch passengers who spit at them. By Matt Sims The...

   

• Nearly half of all criminals escape the DNA database say Lib Dems

  Ahead of today’s European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether two innocent men should be removed from the DNA database,...

   

• 64,000 DNA samples from our children – This needs to be stopped

  Western Mail | THE debate over privacy and the rights of the individual against those of society at large has been given...

   

• ACLU Challenges DNA Databank Expansion

  Civil Liberties Group Concerned Over Privacy Issues MONTPELIER, Vt. — A proposal to expand the state’s DNA database...

   

• Surveillance Overload

  By Christian Harris | The world’s gone security crazy. Everywhere we go stronger measures are being implemented to combat...

   

• The DNA database and you

  How big is it? How many get off it? Your questions answered… By David Mery Special Report The National DNA Database...

   

• Passport Service dismisses 14 for database abuses

  The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) says it has dismissed 14 people over the last three years in relation to passport...

   

• Record increase in DNA database

  More than 722,000 samples were added to the National DNA Database last year – a record increase for one year. The database...

   

• Expanded DNA testing threatens innocent

  By LONNIE RANDOLPH | In early July, Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed a bill that would have required the state to collect DNA samples...

   

• DNA contract reveals plan to probe offenders’ families

  Now you see it, now you don’t: A proposed $300,000 contract between Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas...

   

• DNA database details of children ‘should be deleted’

  By Mark Hookham | Lancashire Police should delete the DNA records of around 4,000 youngsters held on a computer database,...

   

• DNA Testing Expands to Lesser Crimes

  By Dan Morse | While unusual, here is a crime as alleged by Montgomery County police that joins the list of things harder...

   

• Groups protest DNA collection law

  By Laura Smitherman | The Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights activists criticized yesterday Gov. Martin O’Malley‘s...

   

• France marches online to protest ‘security’ database

  Personal privacy is, of course, a major issue these days, particularly when it comes to authorities gathering data in schemes...

   

• Big brother, big bother?

  Is the proposed Communications Data Bill a step too far for the British way of life? Timothy Pitt-Payne reports   By Timothy...

   

• DNA databases shut after identities compromised

  Nature | Several DNA databases run by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, the Wellcome Trust...