Comments on: U.K.'s DNA database violates rights, court rules

European Court of Human Rights orders the DNA records of 850,000 people, who were suspected of a crime but later cleared, to be wiped from a U.K. database.

[therealgeeves]

Just issue all citizens with a facebook dna profile to get around this...

[fokkwp]

"DNA and fingerprinting is vital to the fight against crime"

Against that is the tendency for leading countries, some of which shall remain nameless here, to use security information for all kinds of political rather than merely security purposes. Such states have at times drifted closer to fascism. Fighting criminals by increasingly totalitarian means, rather than the causes of crime, can be dangerous for the health of the state, and I'm glad the EU recognizes this, probably responding to their own history.

[aka_tripleB]

How is storing DNA on people that didn't and probably won't commit a crime "vital to the fight against crime?" I have to say that the Home Secretary statement makes it sound like the British government wanted to do more than fight crime with its DNA database.

[gggg sssss]

Homeland security take note

[joetesta70]

Englans has become the Big Brother state. F' em.

[nsduffield]

Please check your facts the ECHR has nothing to to with the EU. It is a part of the Council of Europe, and includes All EU member states and many many others such as the Russian Federation.

[Glokenpop]

The database is a good idea.

If the end result is BAD it's not the technology or the database itself. It's the misuse of said information.

We don't ban the stock exchange because insider trading exists.

Boom headshot.