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Newspaper articles and other external links

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• European Court of Human Rights: CASE OF GAUGHRAN v. THE UNITED KINGDOM. Judgment (13th February 2020)
  

• The Guardian: Police keeping drink-driver's DNA breached his rights, judges rule (13th February 2020)
  

• Daily Mail: Drink-driver's privacy rights were breached when police kept his DNA profile, fingerprints and photo indefinitely, European human rights judges rule (13th February 2020)
  

• House of CommonsScience and Technology Committee: The work of the Biometrics Commissioner and the Forensic Science Regulator (17th July 2019)
  

• Home Office: International DNA and fingerprint exchange policy for the UK (8th July 2019)
  

• National DNA Database Strategy Board Annual Report 2017/18
  

• The Guardian: Sajid Javid apologises to immigration applicants forced to give DNA samples (25th October 2018)
  

• United Nations Compendium of recommended practices for the responsible use and sharing of biometrics in counter-terrorism (2018)
  

• Financial Times: Home Office demands for visa DNA tests leave families distraught (5th July 2018)
  

• The Independent: Home Office forcing immigrants to take DNA tests in breach of government's own policy (4th July 2018)
  

• Home Office: Biometrics Strategy: Better public services Maintaining, public trust (June 2018)
  

• National DNA Database Strategy Board Annual Report 2015/16
  

• Police Oracle: DNA database most effective since records began (24th February 2017)
  

• BBC: Forensic science standards 'at significant risk' (6 January 2017)
  

• Annual Report of The Ethics Group: National DNA Database 2015 (16th November 2016)
  

• FURTHER REPORT BY THE BIOMETRICS COMMISSIONER ON ISSUES RAISED IN HIS 2015 ANNUAL REPORT (April 2016)
  

• The Telegraph: DNA and fingerprints of 50,000 repeat teenage offenders deleted after software error by police (27th May 2016)
  

• Daily Star: DNA divvies: Police errors result in evidence mix-ups in 98 cases last year (10th April 2016)
  

• Biometric Update: Documents reveal UK government's out-of-court settlements over unlawful biometrics storage (9th April 2016)
  

• The Register: UK Home Office seeks secret settlements over unlawful DNA retention (5th April 2016)
  

• The Register: Home Office seeks secret settlements over unlawful DNA retention (5th April 2016)
  

• The Justice Gap: Ministers need to reinstate a national forensic science service - and quickly (March 2016)
  

• The Guardian: UK police hold DNA profiles of 7,800 terrorism suspects (11th March 2016)
  

• Commissioner for the retention and use of biometric material: Annual Report December 2015
  

• Home Office: The NDNAD Strategy Board Policy for Access and Use of DNA Samples, Profiles and Associated Data (31st December 2015)
  

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  Police Professional: Home Office urges Pruem opt in (27th November 2015)
  

• The Telegraph: Britain should join controversial EU crime database, says Government (26th November 2015)
  

• The Guardian: MPs to vote on joining European police DNA database (23rd November 2015)
  

• Telegraph: British police face deluge of foreign DNA requests if UK joins EU crime database, says report (8th November 2015)
  

• Planet Biometrics: Biometrics Commissioner raises police face database fears (13th October 2015)
  

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  Home Office: International DNA Exchange Policy for the United Kingdom (2nd October 2015)
  

• Home Office: Pruem Business and Implementation Case (30th September 2015)
  

• Statistical study: Prum Feasibility Project (30th Sepember 2015)
  

  Prepared September 2014

• ComputerWorld UK: Police ICT Company CEO Martin Wyke on austerity, transformation and plans to save millions (2nd September 2015)
  

• Police Oracle: Breakthrough machine now being used to upload genetic profiles to database (13th August 2013)
  

• IntagenX: Rapid DNA Results Uploaded For First Time To United Kingdom’s National DNA Database (11th August 2015)
  

• Daily Mail: 'Deadbeat dads' who refuse to pay for their offspring face DNA database checks in child maintenance crackdown (26th July 2015)
  

• Metropolitan Police: Early Deletion Requests - Consideration for the deletion of DNA profiles, Fingerprint, PNC Records and Photographic images (23rd June 2015)
  

• Home Office: Record deletion guidance and application form (27th May 2015)
  

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  Police Professional: PSNI DNA retention lawful (14th May 2015)
  

• The Guardian: Retention of offenders' DNA profiles not illegal, supreme court rules (13th May 2015)
  

• Bristol Post: Avon and Somerset Police's forensic spending falls by 40 per cent in seven years (8th May 2015)
  

• The Independent: Unease over police trial of hi-tech DNA machines amid fears that civil liberties could be infringed (21st April 2015)
  

• Home Office: Circular 009/2015: provisions relating to DNA samples in the Police (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and the Special Constabulary (Amendment) Regulations 2015
  

• in Press articles
  Computing: Government has failed to provide guidelines on use of biometric data, warn MPs (9th March 2015)
  

• The Justice Gap: Forensic science cuts pose ‘a genuine risk to justice’ (18th February 2015)
  

• The Independent: Britain criticised for DNA hold up keeping an innocent man locked up in Spanish prison (8th February 2015)
  

• BBC: Warning by spending watchdog over forensic science work (21st January 2015)
  

• The Justice Gap: Police forensics 'a risk' to criminal cases, spending watchdog warns (21st January 2015)
  

• Gizmonaut: Privacy campaigners vindicated in fight to delete DNA profiles of innocents (19th January 2015)
  

• Daily Mail: The DNA photofit: Amazing breakthrough means police can tell suspect's colour, height and even age – from a tiny speck of blood (17th January 2015)
  

• The Detail: Genetic profile of 123,000 people on NI's DNA database (14th January 2015)
  

• National DNA Database: annual report, 2013 to 2014 (16th December 2014)
  

• Biometrics Commissioner: annual report 2013-2014 (16th December 2014)
  

• The Guardian: Foreign criminals' data taken off police records (16th December 2014)
  

• Wall Street Journal: Spain Threatens U.K.'s Inclusion in EU Justice Cooperation (9th October 2014)
  

• The Independent: European Convention on Human Rights: What has it ever done for us? (3rd October 2014)
  

• Biometric Update: Guidelines for UK police chiefs on applications to retain and use biometric material (29th September 2014)
  

• Home Office: Applications to the Biometrics Commissioner under PACE (26th September 2014)
  

• Daily Mail: DNA blunders mean murderers and rapists could have convictions overturned: Home Office admits misleading evidence has been presented to juries (24th September 2014)
  

• Daily Mail: DNA-testing for crime scene investigations will soon identify criminals in a matter of HOURS (28th July 2014)
  

• Herald: Police storing DNA samples of children as young as 10 (16th July 2014)
  

• DNA Databases: PQ (15th July 2014)
  

  Shows a significant increase in searches of international DNA profiles from crime scenes or missing persons against the National DNA Database, but a reduction in requests for individuals' DNA profiles to be sent abroad.

• in Press articles
  The Scotsman: EU set for 'more policing' powers (8th July 2014)
  

• The Guardian: David Cameron in talks with EU leaders over international DNA database (5th July 2014)
  

• Home Office: National DNA Database strategy board: governance rules (13th June 2014)
  

• BBC: The strange case of the 'time travel' murder (28th April 2014)
  

• The Guardian: 23andMe admits FDA order 'significantly slowed up' new customers (9th March 2014)
  

• BBC: Kercher trial: How does DNA contamination occur? (30th January 2014)
  

• Home Office: DNA early deletion guidance and application form (20th January 2014)
  

• Forensic Science Regulator: The Performance of Bedfordshire Police and Key Forensic Services (16th December 2013)
  

• The Mirror: Nearly 6 million of us are on the DNA database. Does it make you feel any safer? (15th January 2014)
  

• BBC: DNA sampling rule considered for sea burials (1st January 2014)
  

• Forensic Science Regulator: The Performance of Cellmark Forensic Services R v. [S] (6th December 2013)
  

• Home Office: The NDNAD Strategy Board Policy for Access and Use of DNA Samples, Profiles and Associated Data (4th November 2013)
  

• NDNAD Ethics Group: 6th annual report (October 2013)
  

• NATIONAL DNA DATABASE STRATEGY BOARD ANNUAL REPORT 2012-2013
  

• Nottingham Post: Ex-offender from Nottingham wins right not to provide a sample of his DNA (5th October 2013)
  

• BBC: Operation Nutmeg: Court could force police to destroy DNA (24th September 2013)
  

• BBC: Court rejects ex-prisoner's DNA sample challenge (24th September 2013)
  

• The Guardian: Ex-prisoner fails to halt police DNA-collection programme (24th September 2013)
  

• Wales Online: Welsh police take DNA samples from more than 5,500 children (22nd September 2013)
  

• Daily Mail: One-year-old baby among thousands of children who have had their DNA taken by police (22nd September 2013)
  

• New York Times: Double Take (16th September 2013)
  

• Mirror: Police take DNA from children in criminal investigations (8th September 2013)
  

• Forensic Archive Ltd
  

• e! Science News: Forensic familial search methods carry risk of certain false matches (14th August 2013)
  

  There is a video abstract and general public explanation video available for this research.

• BBC: University of Leicester cat DNA database to be used for solving crime (14th August 2013)
  

• House of Commons Science and Technology Committee; Forensic Science I (July 2013)
  

• House of Commons Science and Technology Committee: Forensic Science II (July 2013)
  

• BBC: Forensics upheaval 'threat to justice', MPs warn (25th July 2013)
  

• Gizmonaut: Commencement day of DNA provisions of the Protection of Freedom Act in October (22nd July 2013)
  

• in External links
  The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2013
  

  Commencement order for the provisions in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 which relate to the destruction, retention and use of material including fingerprints, DNA samples and DNA profiles. Most provisions will come into force by 31st October 2013, with the destruction of copies coming into force by 31st January 2014.

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  The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Destruction, Retention and Use of Biometric Data) (Transitional, Transitory and Saving Provisions) Order 2013
  

• in Press articles
  The Guardian: Britain to keep European arrest warrant but try to reform it (8th July 2013)
  

  Reports that Britain will no longer support the DNA-sharing process known as the Pruem decision.

• The Independent: Police told to explain use of unregulated DNA database (9th June 2013)
  

• The Guardian: Police retain DNA from thousands of children (20th May 2013)
  

• National DNA Database biennial report: 2009 to 2011
  

• BBC: Police swabbing of child DNA excessive, says charity (20th May 2013)
  

• Lord Taylor of Holbeach: Update on Protection of Freedoms Act implementation and National DNA Database annual reports 2009 to 2012 (20th May 2013)
  

• National DNA Database Annual Report: 2011-12
  

• National DNA Database statistics (23rd April 2013)
  

• in External links
  Home Office: Protection of Freedoms Act 2012: how DNA and fingerprint evidence is protected in law (4th April 2013)
  

• Huffington Post: 23andMe's Designer Baby Patent (10th March 2013)
  

• EADT24: Ipswich: Victory after man's six-year battle to have DNA records removed from police records (18th January 2013)
  

• GayStarNews: Police bosses tell cops: don't target gays in DNA roundup (18th January 2013)
  

• Politics.co.uk: Outrage grows over gay DNA witchhunt (17th January 2013)
  

• Daily Mail: Police demand DNA sample from former soldier because he had gay relationship in the Army 30 years ago (12th January 2013)
  

• in Press articles
  Daily Mail: EU demands access to details of all UK drivers: 'Orwellian' move to hand out personal information to foreign police forces (9th January 2013)
  

• NDNAD Strategy Board minutes
  

• Equality impact assessment of the National DNA Database (28th November 2012)
  

• The Telegraph: Rapists feared still at large as police fail to update DNA database (23rd October 2012)
  

• Littlehampton Gazette: Sussex Police collect ex-cons' DNA for national database (1st October 2012)
  

• BBC: DNA rape sample procedures 'not adequate' (1st October 2012)
  

• Daily Mail: Innocent man spent FIVE MONTHS in prison after forensics mix-up meant he was falsely accused of rape (1st October 2012)
  

• The Guardian: Thousands of ex-offenders targeted in drive to add to DNA database (27th September 2012)
  

• Manchester Evening News: Police order thousands of DNA samples from ex-convicts in Greater Manchester (18th September 2012)
  

• BBC: DNA test jailed innocent man for murder (31st August 2012)
  

• ZDNet: London police 'hack' suspects' phones: A major blow to human rights (18th May 2012)
  

• in External links
  Protection of Freedoms Act
  

• The Independent: Privatisation is a catastrophe, warns godfather of forensics (2nd April 2012)
  

• Daily Mail: DNA database in doubt after teenager spends three months behind bars for rape in city he has never even visited because gene samples were mixed up (13th March 2012)
  

• The Guardian: Forensics blunder 'may endanger convictions' (8th March 2012)
  

• The Economist: Ignorance is bliss (21st January 2012)
  

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  New Scientist: DNA super-network increases risk of mix-ups (5th September 2011)
  

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  The Guardian: DNA retention judgment won't see discriminatory policy destroyed (18th May 2011)
  

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  The Register: Supreme Court: DNA database retention regs are unlawful (18th May 2011)
  

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  The Guardian: Police breaking law by keeping DNA of the innocent, supreme court rules (18th May 2011)
  

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  BBC Online: DNA and fingerprint guidelines 'unlawful' (18th May 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  The Independent: Guidelines on DNA samples unlawful (18th May 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  Public Service: Police DNA retention policy 'unlawful' (18th May 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  The Guardian: New DNA rules will restore public trust [Letter] (5th March 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  Public Service: Government store DNA of over 6 million (4th March 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  The Register: ICO evidence raises Freedoms Bill data worries (3rd March 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  BBC: How Protection of Freedoms Bill will work (1st March 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  ITN: Government to curb DNA database (1st March 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  The Voice: Innocent black Brits may get their DNA removed from database (22nd February 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  The Telegraph: The coalition's Freedom Bill is a blow against the snoopers and clampers (15th February 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  24dash.com: Freedoms Bill (13th February 2011)
  

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  BBC: DNA profiles to be deleted from police database (11th February 2011)
  

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  Daily Mail: DNA database purge: Victory for the Mail as records of 1m innocent people removed (11th February 2011)
  

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  The Telegraph: DNA of up to a million to be wiped under Freedom Bill (11th February 2011)
  

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  The Guardian: DNA profiles to be deleted from police database (11th February 2011)
  

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  Daily Express: At last, victory over Labour's army of snoops (11th February 2011)
  

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  The Independent: ID cards go up in flames in first step to tackle 'database state' (10th February 2010)
  

• in Press articles
  Independent: A victory for civil liberties - and a challenge for Labour (10th February 2011)
  

• in Press articles
  Belfast Telegraph: PSNI criticised over DNA database (2nd February 2011)
  

• New Scientist: Unreliable evidence? Time to open up DNA Databases (6th January 2010)
  

• in Press articles
  BBC Online: Innocent people face DNA database 'shambles' (31st December 2009)
  

• The Times [subscription]: From schoolboy squabble to DNA database in one easy step - if you're black (24th November 2009)
  

• BBC Online: New safeguards urged over routine police DNA tests (24th November 2009)
  

• Human Genetics Commission: Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? Balancing individual rights and the public interest in the governance and use of the National DNA Database (24th November 2009)
  

• in Press articles and external links
  The Daily Mail: DNA of innocents will be kept on database for six years (29th October 2009)
  

• in The Marper case
  The Guardian: Innocent suspects' profiles still reaching DNA database (28th October 2009)
  

• The Telegraph: Crimes solved by DNA drop by a fifth (22nd October 2009)
  

• The Times [subscription]: Record number of DNA samples taken but crimes solved with them are down (22nd October 2009)
  

• The National DNA Database Annual Report 2007-09
  

• The Guardian: Detections using DNA database fall despite huge rise in profiles (21st October)
  

• in Press articles and external links
  The Guardian: Home Office climbs down over keeping DNA records of innocent (19th October 2009)
  

• The Telegraph: Tory MP Damian Green has DNA profile deleted from database (20th August 2009)
  

• New York Times: DNA evidence can be fabricated, scientists show (17th August 2009)
  

• The Voice: DNA database is damaging race relations, says expert (17th August 2009)
  

• in Press articles and external links
  Daily Mail: 300 children a day added to DNA database (12th August 2009)
  

• in Press articles and external links
  The Observer: 'Racist bias' blamed for disparity in police DNA database (9th August 2009)
  

• in Press articles and external links
  The Guardian: Police told to ignore human rights ruling over database (7th August 2009)
  

• in Press articles and external links
  The Telegraph: Equality watchdog warns DNA plans break law (7th August 2009)
  

• The Telegraph: Police arrest innocent youths for the DNA, officer claims (4th June 2009)
  

• Daily Mail: Driver thrown in police cell after DVLA office blunder (21st May 2009)
  

• The Guardian: DPP's verdict on papers leaked in Damian Green affair - Not a threat to security (17th April 2009)
  

• The Guardian: DNA pioneer Alec Jeffreys: drop innocent from database (15th April 2009)
  

• Politics.co.uk: Tories promise to reform DNA database (6th April 2009)
  

• The Telegraph: Police will be banned from keeping DNA of innocent people, pledge Tories (6th April 2009)
  

• The Crosby Herald: Teen arrested by police for handing in phone (2nd April 2009)
  

• The Telegraph: Five million people now on database (31st March 2009)
  

• Computing: DNA database grows by 38 per cent in two years (30th March 2009)
  

• BBC Online: 'DNA bungle' haunts German police (28th March 2009)
  

• BBC Politics Show: Time for a universal DNA database? (27th March 2009)
  

• BBC Politics Show: MP's battle over DNA database (27th March 2009)
  

• Wall Street Journal: Genes draw likenesses of suspects (27th March 2009)
  

• The Plymouth Herald: I know how you feel, Mr Truman (26th March 2009)
  

• Bild (Germany): Phantom killer was a myth: Police track DNA of cotton bud maker for two years (26th March 2009)
  

• The Daily Mail: As report condemns Government databases...Big Brother is wasting your billions (24th March 2009)
  

• The Independent: The Big Question: Are there illegal Government databases and what can we do about it? (24th March 2009)
  

• BBC Online: Call to scrap 'illegal' databases (23rd March 2009)
  

• Rowntree Database State report (23rd March 2009)
  

• in Reclaim your DNA
  The Guardian: Mark Thomas: How I got my genes deleted (19th March 2009)
  

• The Guardian: Question Eight: DNA Database (16th March 2009)
  

• The Telegraph: DNA of one-year-old baby stored on national database (10th March 2009)
  

• The Register: Three months on, you still can't get off the DNA Database (2nd March 2009)
  

• in The Marper case
  The Guardian: Government plans to keep DNA samples of innocent (27th February 2009)
  

• The Guardian: DNA details of 1.1m children on database (27th February 2009)
  

• The Daily Mail: Banish Big Brother: The state's surveillance powers must be curbed, say Lords (6th February 2009)
  

• in The Marper case
  The Register: Don't delay: Delete your DNA (17th December 2008)
  

• Daily Mail: The EU's Big Brother database poses a threat to our liberties (16th December 2008)
  

• The Daily Mail: One million innocent people could have their profiles wiped from Britain's 'Orwellian' DNA database after court ruling (5th December 2008)
  

• The Independent: A victory for civil liberties - but the larger war still rages (5th December 2008)
  

• BBC Online: Europe DNA ruling resonates in UK (4th December 2008)
  

• in The Marper case
  The Telegraph: Campaigners welcome ruling that DNA-holding breaches human rights (4th December 2008)
  

• Liverpool Daily Post: Police order child's DNA to be removed from database (19th November 2008)
  

• The Telegraph: More than one million added to the DNA database as children (17th November 2008)
  

• The Telegraph: Crimes solved by DNA evidence fall despite millions being added to database (10th November 2008)
  

• The Register: The DNA Database and You (6th November 2008)
  

• Daily Post North Wales: One in 11 from North Wales on DNA file (30th October 2008)
  30th October 2008

• The Daily Mail: New law to allow police to collect DNA in secret from teacups (19th October 2008)
  

• Christian Today: Black church leaders concerned over criminal DNA database (18th July 2008)
  

• The Register: Gordo's DNA database claims branded 'ridiculous' (29th June 2008)
  

• The Telegraph: MPs must act now to set limits on snooping (9th June 2008)
  

• Home Affairs Committee Report: A Surveillance Society? (Vol I)
  

• Home Affairs Committee report: A Surveillance Society? (Vol II: Evidence)
  

• Reuters: Watchdog criticises plan to share DNA data (15th May 2008)
  

• The Guardian: The scandal of 'criminalising' mental health patients (12th May 2008)
  

• The Telegraph: DNA bank solves one crime per 800 profiles (6th May 2008)
  

• Washington Post: US to expand collection of crime suspects' DNA (17th April 2008)
  

• BBC Online: DNA technique 'fit for purpose' (11th April 2008)
  

• The Sunday Mirror: 40,000 kids put on DNA crimes list (6th April 2008)
  

• The Observer: Put young children on DNA list urge police (16th March 2008)
  

• The Daily Mail: 1.5m children will have DNA taken next year amid claims of universal database 'by stealth' (9th March 2008)
  

• Computing: Met police chief calls for European DNA database (5th March 2008)
  

• Black Mental Health UK: Sarah Teather tells House of Commons DNA database discriminates (1st March 2008)
  

• The Guardian: Mixed results (28th February)
  

• New Statesman: Spare pairs of genes (28th February 2008)
  

• The Times: CCTV and DNA advances add to bills but minister calls rises unacceptable (28th February 2008)
  

• The Daily Mail: One in eight samples filed under innocent names in Government blunder (27th February 2008)
  

• Public Technology: Home Office Minister rejects call for a national citizen DNA database (25th February 2008)
  

• The Daily Mail: Police in retreat after public backlash over their demands for a DNA database (25th February 2008)
  

• The Daily Mail; Home Office retreat from plans to extend 'nation of suspects' DNA database to include litterbugs (24th February 2008)
  

• The Sunday Times: Should Britain have a compulsory DNA database? (24th February 2008)
  

• The Glasgow Herald: Police: we must keep DNA of everyone arrested (23rd February 2008)
  

• The Guardian: Calls for compulsory DNA database rejected (23rd February 2008)
  

• The Guardian: Inquiry as Tories attack DNA failure (21st February 2008)
  

• The Times: Gordon Brown admits assaults committed while DNA data disc lost (20th February 2008)
  

• The Times: Disc listing foreign criminals lost for a year (20th February 2008)
  

• The Guardian: Stop! Armed police! Put down your MP3 player (13th February 2008)
  

• BBC Online: Clegg attacks surveillance UK (6th February 2008)
  

• The Register: How to delete your DNA Profile (7th January 2008)
  

• Daily Mail: Big Brother UK: Police now hold DNA 'fingerprints' of 4.5 million Britons (5th November 2007)
  

• The Telegraph: Police retain DNA of 'petty crime suspects' (5th November 2007)
  

• The Times [subscription]: Police told to erase 'irrelevant' crime records (1st November 2007)
  

• The Times [subscription]: Policing the gene pool (29th Sept 2007)
  

• The Economist: Learning to live with Big Brother (27th Sept 2007)
  

• Nature: Genome abuse (26th Sept 2007)
  

• The Times [subscription]: DNA database 'puts innocent under suspicion' (18th Sept 2007)
  

• The Register: Innocent 'terror techie' purges DNA records (17th Sept 2007)
  

• Evening Standard: Outrage as DNA profile of seven-month old baby is added to DNA database (15th Sept 2007)
  

• The Times [subscription]: Inside the world where experts try to unlock DNA clues (15th Sept 2007)
  

• in Nuffield DNA consultation
  Daily Mail: Innocent people's DNA 'must not be kept on national database' (10th Sept 2007)
  

• Computer Weekly: DNA plan would require SAN the size of Belgium (11th Sept 2007)
  

• The Scotsman: Judge opens hornets' nest with call for everyone's DNA to go on record (6th Sept 2007)
  

• BBC Online: All UK 'must be on DNA database' (5th Sept 2007)
  

• Evening Standard: Ministers accused of trying to build DNA database by stealth (5th Sept 2007)
  

• BBC Online: DNA database call prompts concern (5th Sept 2007)
  

• in Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) consultations
  The Times [subscription]: Police want DNA from speeding drivers and litterbugs on database (2nd August 2007)
  

• The Telegraph: Litter lout DNA samples a step too far (2nd August 2007)
  

• in Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) consultations
  The Independent: Police DNA database 'risks criminalising non-offenders' (2nd August 2007)
  

• Daily Mail: Government accused on DNA samples (2nd August 2007)
  

• in Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) consultations
  The Guardian: Police may be given powers to take DNA samples on the street (2nd August 2007)
  

• Evening Standard: Speeding drivers face DNA swabs under Big Brother powers (1st August 2007)
  

• National DNA Database Annual Report 2006-07
  

• in Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) consultations
  The Observer: Civil rights fears over DNA for everyone (27th May 2007)
  

• The National DNA Database Annual Report 2005/06
  26th May 2007

• The Telegraph: DNA file on 100,000 innocent children
  

• Daily Mail: Police put 100,000 innocent children on DNA Database (23rd May 2007)
  

• The Guardian: 'Orwellian' CCTV in shires alarms senior police officer (21st May 2001)
  

• The Guardian: Plan to identify potential offenders condemned (21st May)
  

• The Telegraph: DNA police revisit high profile murder cases (19th May 2007)
  

• The Independent: DNA database blunder 'could have resulted in 200 crimes' (18th May 2007)
  

• The Argus: Youths warned not to use fake ID (17th May 2007)
  

• The Northern Echo: Peer calls for babies' DNA to be stored
  

• BBC Online: DNA failings 'missed 183 crimes' (17th May 2007)
  

• The Guardian: A database of prejudice (15th May 2007)
  

• EDP-24 (Norfolk): Car crime victims must foot the bill (10th May 2007)
  

• Daily Mail: Fears over innocent Britons' DNA being given to European police forces (9th May)
  

• Black Information Link: Chained by our genes (3rd May 2007)
  

• Computer World: EU police data-sharing plan draws criticism (19th April 2007)
  

• Mail on Sunday: Five civil servants suspended over 'DNA espionage' (1st April 2007)
  

• Yorkshire Post: Yorkshire cases to test DNA sampling policy (31st March 2007)
  

• The Guardian: Every child to be screened for risk of turning criminal under Blair justice plan (28th March 2007)
  

• in Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) consultations
  BBC Online: 'Retail jails' could ease police burden (15th March 2007)
  

• The Telegraph: DNA data deal 'will create big brother Europe' (18th February 2007)
  

• The Voice: Mayor urged to support DNA profiling curb (9th February 2007)
  

• The Sunday Times [subscription]: Reid 'buries' news that police hold DNA of 1m innocent people (17th December 2006)
  

• The Independent: DNA of suspects' families to be held on police files (26th November 2006)
  

• The Telegraph: Three in four young black men on the DNA database (5th November 2006)
  

• BBC Online: Fear that DNA use 'gone too far' (1st November 2006)
  

• The Observer: Police DNA database is 'spiraling out of control' by Antony Barnett (16th July 2006)
  

• The National DNA Database Annual Report 2004/05
  10th July 2006

• Forensic DNA Databasing: A European Perspective - A report from Durham University (June 2005)
  

• The Independent: More Britons have DNA held by police than rest of world (14th April 2006)
  

• The Telegraph: Huge rise in juvenile DNA samples kept by the police
  

• The Telegraph: Freedom fears as the DNA database expands
  

• The Guardian: DNA of 37% of black men held by police
  

• DNA Expansion Programme 2000-2005: Reporting achievement
  

• Website of the Scottish Executive
  

  Read the original consultation document, the responses and the Scottish Executive's report.

• The Scotsman article: Keep DNA of innocent and guilty alike
  

• The Voice: 1 in 3 black men are DNA profiled
  

• New Scientist: Will DNA profiling fuel prejudice?
  

• The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's report on forensics, 2005 (main report)
  

• The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's report on forensics, 2005 (evidence)
  

• BBC Online: DNA database Big Brother warning
  

• The National DNA Database Annual Report 2003/04
  5th January 2005

• Home Office Circular: Charges on Basis of Speculative Search Match on the National DNA Database (September 2004)
  

• Genetic Information and Crime Investigation - an academic report
  

• The National DNA Database Annual Report 2002/03
  19th December 2003

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