Data Retention Regulations in the Lords

[Mary Hawking]

In message <20090331213802.23153.5000.Mailman@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, 
ukcrypto-request@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes

>> On the other hand, if all the samples were kept, then the occurrence 
>>of duplicates would soar, and maybe people would then take the 
>>possibility more seriously.
>
>The story is that the original databases have no duplicates, because 
>any attempt to add a duplicate was rejected as an error.  So the claims 
>that there aren't any duplicates in the population at large aren't 
>terribly convincing...

That is even more alarming!
I'm sure there must be some figures on the likelihood of true duplicates 
occurring, although one might expect that the chances increase in inbred 
populations.
If the database rejects anything it regards as a duplicate, any crimes 
committed by your DNA doppleganger will be yours - on sound DNA 
evidence: would the database also feed back into the criminal justice 
system?
"In your CRB check, there is a record that you were held on suspicion of 
child molestation in 2006 in Brighton: your defence - and demand that 
this be removed - is inaccurate and the evidence that you were in New 
York addressing the United Nations is rejected: the DNA sample taken at 
the scene of alleged crime is listed in the DNA Database as yours - and 
DNA cannot lie"?

Thinking proactively, will future criminals take pains to get their DNA 
recorded under a false identity in the future?

Mary Hawking


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