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    • November 2, 2006

    Britain's DNA Database Too Big, Has Privacy Risks

    A pioneer of Britain's DNA database said on Wednesday it may have grown so far beyond its original purpose that it now risks undermining civil rights. Professor Alec Jeffreys told BBC radio that hundreds of thousands of innocent people's DNA was now held on the database, a disproportionate number of them young black men. The database, set up in 1995, has expanded to 3.6 million profiles, making it the largest in the world.

    Database Pioneer's Privacy Fears, Reuters, November 2, 2006.

    Posted by EPIC at November 2, 2006 1:07 PM
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