So how innocent are you?

[Peter]

So the governments response to sorting out the illegal records of innocent people being stored on the the DNA/Fingerprint database is to introduce two levels of innocence.

If you're innocent of a minor crime, your records will be deleted after six years, however, if you didn't commit a serious crime, you have to wait twelve years.

You can't make this stuff up.

[andy at handiwork]

I'll believe there is no presumption of guilt by being on the DNA register when all Labour politicians and all serving policemen volunteer theirs.

[JonnyHungwell]

Do you for one minute think the ones dropped off the main register after 6/12 years will actually be deleted? - they'll just be moved to a secret second register.

[lickalot]

I'd be happy to have my DNA on any database, why would anyone not be ?

[andy at handiwork]

For a start it makes one a suspect. Secondly it is possible to make all sorts of observations about someone from their DNA. Do you trust the holders of it not to let insurance companies have it? Thirdly its mine not the f****g governments.

[andy at handiwork]

Well actually an awful lot worse. For a start the plan was for the removal of most males 18-50 from Britain for use in German industry and agriculture, after of course the undesirables had been shot, gassed or otherwise eliminated. To equate the present administration however authoritarian it's thinking, with Hitler is an insult to the intelligence, and to those who died fighting or suffered under, the nazis.

[Peter]

lickalot wrote:

> I'd be happy to have my DNA on any database, why would anyone
> not be ?

Well this argument of "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" (apart from being just wrong) tends to break down for everyone at some point, where does it become too much for you?

Would you be happy to report to your local police station to present your travel plans for the day should you wish to leave town? Because if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right?

Would you be happy to have a tracking chip implanted in your body, so that 'they' know where you are, every second of every day? Because if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right?

Would you be happy to have cameras and microphones in every room in your house, being monitored by 'them' 24/7? Because if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right?

Where does it become too much for you?