New technology that allows police to test DNA samples within custody suites without needing specialist forensic training is causing concern among civil liberties groups, The Independent has reported. Trials of the new DNA testing technology, cal... Read more
Delhi Police is drawing up a plan to conduct DNA tests on people begging on the streets with children, to find out it these kids were their own or had been abducted and trafficked, sources said. The idea was sent to the prime minister’s of... Read more
An Alaska state senator suggested in a hearing Tuesday that criminal behavior — and the need for future DNA testing — could be predicted as early as middle school. Sen. Charlie Huggins, R-Wasilla, offered what he called a “completely... Read more
The General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) kept a DNA database that is not permitted by law, according to a report by the Supervisory Committee on the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD). The report states that data was kept wh... Read more
The State’s forensic science agency is in “crisis” in terms of its staffing and facilities, the head of the body has told an Oireachtas committee. Director of Forensic Science Ireland, Dr Sheila Willis, said that in her 35 years working in the s... Read more
The San Francisco police crime-lab technician and a supervisor implicated in alleged misconduct that could jeopardize hundreds of criminal cases failed a DNA proficiency exam last year and were barred from processing evidence, documents show. Po... Read more
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will transfer the DNA testing software to the Vietnamese police under an agreement signed in Washington on Monday. The signing was witnessed by FBI Director James Comey and Vietnam’s Minister of Publi... Read more
Dutch DNA database makes 25,000th criminal hit Posted on Feb 26, 2015 by Janene Van Jaarsveldt The Netherlands’ DNA database made its 25,000th match last night. It involved a match between evidence found in the Netherlands and a person whose DNA... Read more
Every dystopian sci-fi film we’ve ever seen is suddenly converging into this present moment in a dangerous trifecta between science, technology and a government that wants to be all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful. By tapping into your phon... Read more
There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going. Nonetheless, the police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possibl... Read more