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Data Collection, Registries, DNA Data

Civil Liberties, DNA, Biometrics, Data Collection, Police: “FORENSIC SCIENCE REGULATOR NEWSLETTER No 6” – “DNA profiling quality standards, with particular reference to the National DNA Database” mentions ethics group. – Article about National DNA Database in UK includes comments by Chair of Ethics Group and others. One “good citizen” says “I would be delighted to have my personal privacy invaded and civil liberties infringed if it meant that just one life were saved”, and I’m sure he would like that to happen to everyone else too.

“Dutch Press Review 26 November 2008 – Pubic hair police” [Scroll Down] by Frank Scimone (at rnw.nl) – Nov. 26, 2008. (http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/pr/081126-dutch-press-review-redirected) – “electronic children’s dossier”

“French issue call to storm ‘electronic Bastille’ ” by Estelle Shirbon (reuters.com) – Sept. 4, 2008. – “Opposition to a new security database is gaining momentum in France as people return to work after a summer break during which the government authorized the state to store personal information on people as young as 13.”

TechMan: Want a record of your whole brilliant life? (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10122/1054631-96.stm) Like movie “Final Cut”

Disease, Big Brother: “I was a government guinea pig, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” by Mark Baard (theregister.co.uk) – Sept. 5, 2008. – EPA and NIH’s National Childrens Study, 100,000 chilren studied over next 21 years: considered implantable sensors but decided on extensive biological sampling. To study causes of childhood disease trends.

“Why the police now have to ask teenage muggers: ‘Do you eat chips?’ ” by Eileen Fairweather (dailymail.co.uk) – May 17, 2008.

Queen’s Speech in Commonwealth Countries, New Social Engineering Controls on Families, Retaining DNA of Innocent People: “Queen’s Speech: ban on mobile phones in jail” [Queen’s Speech brings More State Powers] by Richard Ford (timesonline.co.uk) – Nov. 18, 2009.

“Has your child been CAFed? How the Government plans to record intimate information on every child in Britain” by Eileen Fairweather (dailymail.co.uk) – Dec. 7, 2008.

“Bush Signs Bill To Take All Newborns’ DNA” by Steve Watson (infowars.net) – May 2, 2008.

Public Health: “Infodemiology: Public health at the “granular” level” [Intimate Medical Details freely Given for Govt. and W.H.O. to Monitor] by Mark Baard (timenauts.com) – Sept. 4, 2009. (http://heretic.blastmagazine.com/2009/09/infodemiology-public-health-at-the-granular-level/)

“DNA of ‘blameless’ youths stored” (news.bbc.co.uk) – Aug. 15, 2008.

Rights & Freedoms: UK–“Hate” Register for Children in Schools-5yrs. old and Up

“Anglers arrested and DNA tested by anti-terror police for using laser pens to scare ducks” by Arthur Martin (dailymail.co.uk) – March 24, 2009.

“Police launch mass DNA screening to catch rapist killer after woman’s body is found in park” (dailymail.co.uk) – June 8, 2009.

“Grandfather arrested at dawn, DNA-tested and held in a police cell for SIX hours for swearing once at council official” (dailymail.co.uk) – Nov. 10, 2009.

Computer Glitch Causes Couple’s Home to be Raided–50 Times

Facebook Steals Your Friends’ Phone Numbers

Databases, Data Collection: “Every pupil to be numbered and kept on Government database FOR LIFE”

“DNA database plans for children who ‘could become criminals’ ” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/nasbo217.xml)

“All UK citizens in ID database by 2017” by Philip Johnston (telegraph.co.uk) – March 6, 2008. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/06/nid506.xml)

Data Collection: “Government to quiz households on sex lives and salaries” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/21/nspy221.xml)

Data Collection: “U.S. to Expand Collection Of Crime Suspects’ DNA”