Government building world's biggest DNA database by stealth - Huhne

11.24.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Wed 21st Oct 2009

Carcinogen bound in DNA double helix. (photography: Courtesy of www.pdimages.com)

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Commenting on the DNA Database Annual Report, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said:

"Despite the European Court ruling it illegal, the Government continues to build the world's biggest DNA database by stealth and with disturbing speed.

"Ministers have an Orwellian devotion to this database and are so obsessed with it they see no need to differentiate between innocence and guilt.

"There are at least a million innocent people on the database who should be removed from it immediately.

"Black people are four times more prevalent on the database than in the population and that alone is indicative of the damage this obsession can do.

"The costs of the database have doubled in two years while the number of detections has halved, which is the sort of performance that should shake even ministers' blind commitment."

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