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Privacy Fears Over UK DNA database

Posted by michael on from the stunning-realization dept.

jukal writes "An article at BBC about the UK's DNA database as a privacy threat. 'More than 1.5 million DNA profiles are now held on the £187m National DNA Database and the target is to have about three million profiles stored by April 2004. '... this has alarmed the inventor of DNA fingerprinting (Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys), who has now 'launched an outspoken attack on the way the genetic profiles of suspects in the UK who have been cleared of any crime are still stored by the authorities'."

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  1. Re:Sounds like nuclear physicists... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...after the Manhattan project, a few of the physicists involved were kind of horrified with how much potential damage the world was looking at and became nuclear weapon opponents.
    For world-beating physicists, they really were retarded in this respect. "Ok, so, our mission is to build a bomb more powerful and more destructive than any other, to kill large numbers of people." wait a few years "OMG! We've built a bomb more powerful and more destructive than any other, and it may kill large numbers of people! How horrific!"