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... 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 s... 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 H... 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 Se... 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 Sh... 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 w... 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 F... 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 e... 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,... 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 Co... Read more