Privacy Fears Over UK DNA database

Posted by michael on Thursday September 12, 2002 @04:15AM 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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DNA samples by ELCarlsson · 2002-09-12 07:43 · Score: 2, Interesting

When I joined the military they took a DNA sample from me. It is so that I could be identified if I get seriously f'ed up. But I wonder sometimes if that DNA sample may just be used for other things. Is that sample gonna stay with the military? Will it end up in the police databases?
I'm no conspiracy theorist but sometimes I do wonder.