If the Guy Who Invented Dna Fingerprinting Is Worried,We Should All Be [Edition 3]

Mail on Sunday (May 10, 2009)

Author: Suzanne Moore

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HOW much information does the State need to have about me that I have not freely volunteered? I'd say it already knows a lot more than it needs to. But then so does Tesco. I have been photographed, fingerprinted and asked all sorts of odd questions without ever having been arrested - though it's come close.

I have been CRB-checked by my child's school. My blood was routinely tested for HIV and rubella when I was pregnant. The one little bit of me that they don't have is my DNA. But surely it's only a matter of time.

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If the Guy Who Invented Dna Fingerprinting Is Worried,We Should All Be [Edition 3]

Why should I, an innocent citizen, object to the State having my precious DNA on its database? What have I to fear? Am I 'against justice', as Harriet Harman ludicrously ...

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