February 25, 2008
UK Rejects Mandatory DNA Database
Calls to put the DNA of every UK resident on a national database are impractical, the government has said. A senior police officer has argued for a universal register, after two killers were convicted on DNA evidence. But the Home Office said a mandatory database "would raise significant practical and ethical issues."
Mandatory DNA database rejected, BBC News, February 23, 2008.
Posted by EPIC at February 25, 2008 1:06 PM
