Judge calls for UK DNA database

Everyone who lives in Britain should have their DNA stored on a
national database, a top judge has said.

Lord Justice Sedley is well known for his support of human rights,
including upholding a ruling over the government denying rights to
asylum seekers.

The law lord said the potential gain from a national base was
considerable.

"The risks, so long as they are confronted, are controllable," he said
during a Leicester University Law School lecture.

Lord Justice Sedley said he made no case for or against the
introduction of compulsory identity cards.

"But a society that feels able, as ours does, to give serious
consideration to such a step, ought not to turn its face away 
from the case for a universal DNA register." 

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Source: BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4038079.stm


Cheers, Steve...

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