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• Afghanistan

  US and UK intelligence services have been building a database of DNA collected in Afghanistan and Iraq.

• Albania

  Interpol's 2008 survey lists Albania as a country where a DNA database is planned.

• Algeria

  Interpol's 2008 survey lists Algeria as a country where a DNA database is planned.

• Argentina

  Argentina has a database containing DNA donated voluntarily by families whose children disappeared during the dictatorship.

• Australia

  In Australia each state operates its own DNA database and a national system allows profiles to be matched across states. Some states allow innocent people's DNA profiles to be retained.

• Austria

  In Austria, DNA profiles may be deleted and samples destroyed on acquittal but only on written application.