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: eLegal CantonTrust us – we are the government – DNA database #fail
By David Canton
England has turned into one of the least privacy friendly governments. It is a poster child for being overly invasive – with the usual unsupported claims that is is necessary to fight crime – and the position that governments and police forces can be trusted to be discrete and do the right thing. But of course, when the official culture is one of invasiveness – the ‘right thing’ is a moving target.
Case in point: Boing Boing reports that a UK inquiry claims the police routinely arrest people they haveo intent of charging solely to get their DNA into their database.
Full post as published by eLegal Canton on November 24, 2009 (boomark / email).
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