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GeneWatch UK call for stronger privacy and human rights safeguards regarding the UK National DNA Database

GeneWatch UK have launched a report calling for stronger privacy and human rights safeguards regarding the National DNA Database

This is another area of technology with huge implications for our privacy, but which our elected political representatives and the general media seem to be ignorant of, as was shown by their inept performance in scrutinising the Human Tissue Act, which permits DNA analysis without your consent, but does not even mention RNA, chromosomes, or protein folding and other similar genetic analysis techniques.

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