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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 the world. The agreement on which the UK has formed its first
Read More »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 why he had his fingerprints and DNA sampled after he became the victim of
Read More »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 biometric passports.IBM will also provide a replacement for the UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) Immigration and
Read More »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 purpose of getting their DNA on record. A FOI request has
Read More »Government may renew data sharing plans
Speaking at a conference in London organised by the Information Commissioner’s Office, he emphasised the need for a new consultation on the appropriate limits of data sharing. This follows the government’s retreat from its
Read More »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 underlined this morning when David Cameron was interviewed on the Today programme. With the vast
Read More »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 per cent – according to figures released by the
Read More »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 government, and there is an urgent need to control and understand it. One of the most
Read More »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, according to a new report by the Rowntree Trust published this week. The report slams
Read More »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 swab kits were issued at a special event at Wrexham Bus
Read More »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, the Liberal Democrats have revealed that 40% of Britain’s criminals escape inclusion on
Read More »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 a fresh twist this week with the arrest of an MP and
Read More »ACLU Challenges DNA Databank Expansion
Civil Liberties Group Concerned Over Privacy Issues MONTPELIER, Vt. — A proposal to expand the state’s DNA database is being questioned by a civil liberties group. Under the Senate Judiciary Committee’s plan, the
Read More »Surveillance Overload
By Christian Harris | The world’s gone security crazy. Everywhere we go stronger measures are being implemented to combat impersonation, ID theft and fraud. Following news that a leading chain of kiddie’s nurseries in
Read More »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 (NDNAD) keeps growing: it now holds more than five million DNA profiles of
Read More »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 database abuses.The IPS is now closely involved in building the government’s national identity
Read More »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 has samples from some 4m people and is the world’s largest per
Read More »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 from people simply arrested for — but not convicted of —
Read More »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 and a British DNA lab provided for software that would help track down criminals by identifying
Read More »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, the Liberal Democrats have demanded. Delegates at the party’s Bournemouth conference overwhelmingly backed a
Read More »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 to get away with in the era of DNA evidence: Man walks
Read More »Groups protest DNA collection law
By Laura Smitherman | The Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights activists criticized yesterday Gov. Martin O’Malley‘s plan for implementing a new program for collecting DNA samples from crime suspects, accusing the administration of
Read More »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 such as the UK’s proposed identity card program or France’s Edvidge electronic database. Edvidge,
Read More »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 Pitt-Payne | On 15 July this year, the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas,
Read More »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 in London and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were closed to public access
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