UK - Police put 100,000 innocent kids on dna database

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Where will this ever end? Somehow I don't think it will end with the demise of Nu-Labour, once something like this has "taken hold", it is almost impossible to get rid of. Just another tool for the antichrist? Put in place by a trusting populace who think that they can trust their government and always will be able to and DNA testing is a "magic bullet" for solving crime, solving terrorism, solving "identify theft", curing cancer and helping people lose weight?

One of the most scary parts of the article is: "It will fuel concerns that police are targeting for arrest youngsters who have done nothing wrong, simply to get their hands on their DNA".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

Police put 100,000 innocent children on DNA database

By JAMES SLACK

The number of innocent children placed on the Government's vast DNA database for life has quadrupled in the past year to more than 100,000, it has emerged.

The astonishing increase, which follows a controversial change to the law, was described by opposition MPs as an "extremely sinister development".

It will fuel concerns that police are targeting for arrest youngsters who have done nothing wrong, simply to get their hands on their DNA.

Terri Dowty, director of the pressure group Action on Rights for Children, said: "These are shocking statistics. These children will be on the database for the rest of their lives.

"Whenever their DNA is found at a crime scene, they will have to be prepared to justify themselves. We are turning thousands of innocent children into lifelong suspects."

The revelation a year ago that the details of 24,000 innocent youngsters had been stored on the DNA database brought widespread alarm.

But research by Action on Rights for Children and the pressure group GeneWatch UK, using Home Office figures, reveals that - far from being deterred - police have accelerated sharply the rate at which they are gathering samples from children.

In the past 12 months, the samples of 81,000 children convicted of no crime have been added to the database, which can be checked against any crime scene. It takes the total to 105,000.

Since April 2004, anyone aged ten or above who is arrested in England or Wales can have their DNA and fingerprints taken without their consent, or that of their parents.

The DNA samples are all kept permanently. The computerised DNA profiles are also kept permanently on the DNA database, even if the person arrested is never charged or is acquitted.

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