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UK: Guardian - DNA database update: DNA pioneer condemns plan to keep details on database for 12 years - 'Minimal' response to European court ruling - Measures fail to address key concerns, say lawyers

01 May 2009

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DNA pioneer condemns plan to keep details on database for 12 years - 'Minimal' response to European court ruling - Measures fail to address key concerns, say lawyers (Guardian, link)

Home Office response to the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the Marper case: Innocent will be sentenced to 12 years on the DNA database and Smith's DNA database by stealth: Jacqui Smith's new plans erode principles of innocent until proven guilty to create a New Labour-style third way: innocentish by Mark Thomas (Guardian links).

Home Office Consultation: Keeping the right people on the DNA database (pdf) and Annex to consultation (3 MB, link)

European Court of Human Rights unanimously finds that the UK practice of keeping indefinitely the fingerprints and DNA of people not convicted of an offence is a violation of Article 8 of the ECHR Convention: Marper case press release (pdf) and Full-text of Marper judgment (pdf).

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