{"id":1717,"date":"2008-02-23T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T10:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2008-02-23T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T10:52:18","slug":"calls-for-a-national-dna-database-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/calls-for-a-national-dna-database-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for a national DNA database&#8230; rejected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right. The police have asked that every single last one of us has our DNA sampled just in case we commit a heinous crime. And <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7260164.stm\">the government are AGAINST it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hang on. Was there a coup d&#8217;etat overnight or something? Where&#8217;s the REAL government?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Home Office said a mandatory database &#8220;would raise significant practical and ethical issues&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a veritable Damascene conversion! I eagerly await the now surely inevitable announcement of the abandonment of the equally impractical and ethically suspect ID database.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Home Office minister Tony McNulty told BBC that a national database was not a &#8220;silver bullet&#8221; and that it would raise practical as well as civil liberties issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/10\/17\/mcnulty_fingers_id_problem\/\">THE Tony McNulty<\/a>. Him of blind loyalty to the ID scheme fame.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;How to maintain the security of a database with 4.5m people on it is one thing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doing that for 60m people is another.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hurrah! Does this mean they&#8217;ve seen the light?<\/p>\n<p>Hint: almost certainly not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right. The police have asked that every single last one of us has our DNA sampled just in case we commit a heinous crime. And the government are AGAINST it. Hang on. Was there a coup d&#8217;etat overnight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/calls-for-a-national-dna-database-rejected\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[45,43],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-civil-liberties","tag-idiocy","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}