Data Retention Regulations in the Lords

[Roland Perry]

In article <49CCFBFF.25022.1AC0EE2@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen 
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
>It will be interesting to see what the police make of the three e-mails
>they supposedly have with regard to the damage some of Fred Goodwin's
>stuff suffered recently. Will they be able to catch the sender?
><http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Detectives-probe-third-
>email-over.5115901.jp>

One thing's for sure, we can't tell from information like this divulged 
to the press.

>Meanwhile the perils of relying too much on DNA are illustrated neatly
>by <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dna-blunder-creates-
>phantom-serial-killer-1655375.html> where it appears the police have
>spent 15 years looking for a "serial killer" but it now appears the DNA
>connection was due to contamination.

Look on the bright side, they haven't arrested the worker [who was 
presumably licking the swabs during manufacture] for murder. Even though 
they have DNA evidence to prove it. Plod is not the automaton he's 
sometimes accused of being.
-- 
Roland Perry