The Forensic Genetics Policy Intiative (FGPI), a project of the Council for Responsible Genetics, GeneWatch UK and Privacy International, is an international project to raise awareness of th... Read more
A new version of a draft law that proposed to set up a national DNA fingerprint database of criminals, including rapists, murderers and kidnappers, plans to substantially expand the type of... Read more
The government plans to introduce a bill in Parliament that aims to create a pool of “DNA profiles” of “offenders” as part of efforts to make crime detection more eff... Read more
The ACT Supreme Court has heard an email incorrectly identifying a severely disabled girl’s brother as the father of her child, was an unfortunate mistake. The court is considering a c... Read more
Robert Green OBE, a forensic science lecturer at the University of Greenwich at Medway, says database would increase the chance of solving crimes A FORENSICS expert is calling for every new... Read more
On September 19, the Ninth Circuit is set to hear new arguments in Haskell v. Harris, a case challenging California’s warrantless DNA collection program. Today EFF asked the court to conside... Read more
On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled to reconsider whether California violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against searches and seizures... Read more
Investigators hit a wall when human remains are found but a match to those remains isn't. The state Medical Examiner's Office is now working to expand a database to help them find and identi... Read more
ALLEGED wide-scale corruption and theft at the country’s leading police forensic science laboratory is leading to massive backlogs in the finalisation of horrific crimes, including sex... Read more
The Czech Office for Personal Data Protection (UOOU) has ordered the shredding of some data from the National Crime database of DNA Profiles whose storage does not reflect the gravity of a c... Read more