Ministers are facing a call to act to safeguard people's privacy against Big Brother-style intrusion from the police's national DNA database. GeneWatch UK said both communist and fascist governments in Europe had used personal records to oppress people. Changes could be made to safeguard privacy without compromising the use of DNA in fighting crime, its report said. The Home Office said measures were in place to restrict use of the database to crime probes and prosecutions. But GeneWatch argued the database creates a permanent list of "suspects" which includes anyone arrested for a recordable offence even if they are never...
