1.7m DNA Profiles Cut From Database
By Press Association,
Press Association
| 10. 24. 2013
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 to slim down the amount of information held by the state, more than 1.6 million fingerprint records from innocent people have also been deleted.
Some 480,000 of the DNA profiles removed from the database were from children, Criminal Information Minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach told Parliament.
In a written statement he said the Government had " delivered its commitment to reform the retention of DNA and fingerprint records by removing innocent people from the databases, and adding the guilty".
Some 7,753,000 samples, containing "sensitive personal biological material", have been destroyed because they are no longer needed as they have been used to create a profile.
Lord Taylor said 1,766,000 DNA profiles from innocent people had been deleted from the National DNA Database (NDNAD) and 1,672,000 fingerprint records had been removed from the national fingerprint database.
He added: " At the same time, 6,800 convicted murderers and sex offenders, not on the database under...
Related Articles
By Pallab Gosh and Gwyndaf Hughes, BBC News | 06.26.2025
Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first.
The research has been taboo until now because of concerns it could lead to...
Since the “CRISPR babies” scandal in 2018, no additional genetically modified babies are known to have been born. Now several techno-enthusiastic billionaires are setting up privately funded companies to genetically edit human embryos, with the explicit intention of creating genetically modified children.
Heritable genome editing remains prohibited by policies in the overwhelming majority of countries that have any relevant policy, and by a binding European treaty. Support for keeping it legally off limits is widespread, including among scientists...
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 06.16.2025
23andMe's two-step sale to a nonprofit led by former CEO Anne Wojcicki is nothing more than a dance around California's genetic privacy law, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a filing late Monday, one day before a judge will...
By Ed Cara, Gizmodo | 06.22.2025
In late May, several scientific organizations, including the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT), banded together to call for a 10-year moratorium on using CRISPR and related technologies to pursue human heritable germline editing. The declaration also outlined...
