U.K. cops arrest people ‘just for the DNA’

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Gadgets  Tue, 11/24/2009 - 04:24

Britain has built the world's biggest DNA database without proper political debate and police routinely arrest people just to get their DNA profiles onto the system, a watchdog said.

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