Belgium needs a universal DNA database to fight crime with samples to be taken from every newborn baby or foreigner who enters the country, a senior Belgian justice official has said.... Read more
CIVIL Liberties Australia is concerned emerging DNA technology that allows police to determine eye and hair colour of potential suspects will impinge on privacy and help create a national DN... Read more
State lawmakers in Pennsylvania are debating a bill to allow police to take a sample of someone’s DNA after that person has been arrested for a felony. Currently, that’s only allowed once so... Read more
Prairieville police are holding a man’s DNA hostage after obtaining it for evidence when his wife’s car was broken into Oct. 29. This ridiculous ordeal could be the first of many future atte... Read more
With genetic fingerprinting being used extensively for crime-solving, many governments are compiling vast databases containing the DNA profiles of many of their citizens in an attempt to cur... Read more
Genetic material is the smoking gun of the modern crime scene. Juries in criminal trials are often encouraged to think of DNA profiling as an exact science, in which telltale traces of skin,... Read more
The Indonesian Police now have a world-class forensic tool to help them narrow down the identity of suspects in crime for prosecution, thanks to Cowra’s own 26-year-old Dr Samantha Venables... Read more
Prompted by concerns over the ease with which foreigners will be able to travel in and out of the country once the Asean Economic Community (AEC) commences in 2015, the Institute for Forensi... Read more
More than 1.7 million DNA profiles of innocent adults and children have been deleted from the national database, ministers have revealed. As part of the Government’s commitment... Read more
When the state of New York expanded its DNA database last year, I didn’t give it much thought. After all, I am not a criminal, so it’s not like my DNA is going to be in the database a... Read more