Home Secretary David Blunkett will today call for the creation of an EU-wide DNA database of criminals and terror suspects to aid the government's war on terror. Newspaper reports claim Blunkett will table the pooling of DNA and fingerprint records...
The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of internet chatrooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal. The proposed system could aid the intelligence community to discover hidden...
The Homeland Security breach actually did little other than reveal the extent of Stateside paranoia. Invariably it is not going to be where companies or cash are most at risk but where human lives will genuinely be put at risk, especially if they...
The number of records on the UK government's DNA database has passed the three million mark, and the number of crimes solved using the profiles continues to rise. Crimes solved through DNA analysis have quadrupled over the last five years, and the...
Conservatives have accused the government of trying to build a national DNA database "by stealth". The Tories are calling for more debate over the growth of the national DNA database. Shadow home affairs spokesman, Damian Green, said in a statement...
An "out of control stealth database" storing thousands of innocent people's DNA is being created because of a lack of guidelines and controls over how police collect DNA, according to a campaign group led by Conservative MP Grant Shapps.