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UK: Statewatch analysis: UK Government’s “clumsy, indiscriminate and disproportionate” approach to DNA retention by Max Rowlands

01 June 2010

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Statewatch analysis: UK Government’s “clumsy, indiscriminate and disproportionate” approach to DNA retention (pdf) by Max Rowlands. The UK government intends to keep innocent people on the national DNA database for six years despite the European Court of Human Rights having ruled the practice to be unlawful.

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