A top judge called for every citizen and all visitors to the UK to be put onto a DNA database.
Lord Justice Sedley claimed that everybody who lives in the UK or even visits for a weekend should be put on a DNA database for reasons of â€œcrime detection and preventionâ€. From the BBC article:
"Lord Justice Sedley, who is one of England's most experienced appeal court judges, said: "We have a situation where if you happen to have been in the hands of the police then your DNA is on permanent record. If you haven't, it isn't.
"It means where there is ethnic profiling going on disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities get onto the database.
"It also means that a great many people who are walking the streets and whose DNA would show them guilty of crimes, go free."
He said the only option was to expand the database to cover the whole population and all those who visited the UK, even for a weekend.
"Going forwards has very serious but manageable implications," he insisted. It means that everybody, guilty or innocent, should expect their DNA to be on file for the absolutely rigorously restricted purpose of crime detection and prevention."
The fact that everybody should be included on the DNA database because of some misguided notion of â€œpolitical correctnessâ€ is absolutely absurd. Regardless of skin colour, nobody should have to give their DNA if they are innocent. We have previously reported on the fact that children are already being placed on the DNA database and from next year, all children in the UK will have their details placed on a national database. The only children that will be exempted from this national database will be children of politicians and celebrities.
Currently, the UK DNA database is the largest of any country in the world. From The Independent article:
â€œThe UK's 12-year-old DNA database is the largest of any country, growing by 30,000 samples a month, which are taken from suspects or crime scenes.
According to the Home Office website, 5.2% of the UK population is on the database, compared with 0.5% in the US.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights organisation Liberty, said: "The DNA debate reveals just how casual some people have become about the value of personal privacy.
"A database of those convicted of sexual and violent crime is a perfectly sensible crimefighting measure.
"A database of every man, woman and child in the country is a chilling proposal, ripe for indignity, error and abuse.â€
Personal freedoms in the UK are being eroded on a regular basis and this latest call for a national DNA database is simply another step away from freedom and towards a surveillance state.
For details of the number of people on the UKâ€™s DNA database visit this House of Commons page.Â
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