THE UK has led the world in forensic DNA profiling for law enforcement – but now the (ECHR) has ruled that the has gone too far. In a landmark judgement on 4 December, the court ruled that the UK’s Home Office must remove over 800,000 of about 4.5 million profiles in the database, and destroy the DNA samples.
The samples belong to people who were suspected of a crime, but who were either acquitted or never tried. “Given the nature and the amount of personal information contained in cellular samples, their…
