Philip Johnston thinks not:
"What we are now witnessing with this explosion in the number of centrally controlled databases is the development of something awesomely intrusive, the creation of a gigantic high-tech Domesday Book to take down all our particulars and track us from cradle to grave. If by rejecting any notion of a universal DNA database, the Home Office now recognises there is a line to be drawn, then that is to be welcomed. The debate we need to have is not about how to expand the database state but what we can now do to limit and reduce it."
Click here to see the recent CPS paper on how it has been coming about.
