[privacy] All UK 'must be on DNA database'

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6979138.stm
 
The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national
DNA database, a senior judge has said. 

The present database in England and Wales holds details of 4m people who are
guilty or cleared of a crime. 


Lord Justice Sedley said this was indefensible and biased against ethnic
minorities, and it would be fairer to include everyone, guilty or innocent. 


Ministers said DNA helped tackle crime, but there were no plans for a
voluntary national or compulsory UK database. 


A spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown said to expand the database
would create "huge logistical and bureaucratic issues" and civil liberty
concerns. 

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