A DNA DATABASE
FOR ALL. One fifth of the world's CCTV cameras. IT'S TIME to tell BIG
BROTHER to STOP THIS SNOOPING. by
Edward Heathcote Amory
[Daily Mail-Thursday,September,20,2007]
WHEN the GOVERNMENT promised to GUARANTEE all of NORTHERN
ROCK'S deposits, queues continued at many branches. Savers, rightly or
wrongly concluded that MINISTERS -and THEIR PROMISES - were
UNTRUSTWORTHY. That same
inability to
TRUST POLITICIANS
is at the root of our concerns about
A NATIONAL DATABASE.
If we trusted our leaders without reservation, we would
have far fewer concerns about allowing them to store our DNA details.
But neither the population as a whole nor the eminent
Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which this week attacked the
DATABASE
placed much trust in our elected representatives.
We fear that they will allow hackers to penetrate the
system and grab our genetic details, that future governments may use the
information it contains about our
HEALTH and FAMILIES
to bully and bribe us, that cash-strapped ministers may
sell our details to commercial organisations.
Most Britons, according to a recent poll, now believe
that we live in a surveillance society, in which the
GOVERNMENT has COMPROMISED our PRIVACY
AND WE DON'T LIKE IT!
ONLY ONE IN FIVE TRUSTS THE GOVERNMENT.
TO KEEP OUR
PERSONAL DETAILS
CONFIDENTIAL.
The national DNA
database is a classic example of how bureaucracy, technology and
autocracy combine to
LIMIT OUR FREEDOMS.
It was as
recently a 1984 that the technique of genetic fingerprinting was
discovered. The national DNA database was established only in
1995 BUT
TODAY, just 12 years later, some
FOUR MILLION NAMES
have their unique genetic fingerprint stored on that
database -
ONE NEW PROFILE IS BEING ADDED EVERY
45 SECONDS. Of these,
500,000
are FALSE or
INCORRECT. Another
1,000,000
HAVE NEVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME
But their sample collected as witnesses, or when they
were suspected of an offence for which they were later CLEARED.
Increase In
Scotland, such samples are REMOVED from the DATABASE but in
England the police nearly always REFUSE TO DO THIS.
We have even stored the records of
100,000
children
-including those of a seven-month-old-baby girl.
THERE ARE NO PLANS TO REMOVE THESE DETAILS.
Parliament's INFORMATION COMMISSIONER Richard Thomas
warned last year that data held on CHILDREN is 'set to increase
dramatically'. In fact, the
GOVERNMENT wants to collect many more samples. It is consulting on
planes to expand the number of offences for which DNA samples are
routinely collected by the police, to include littering, shoplifting and
anti-social behaviour. But in the
longer term, there is an even more sinister development. Last month,
Stephen Sedley, a former COMMUNIST who is now a SENIOR JUDGE, suggested
EVERYONE
in Britain should have their DNA
recorded at birth on the
DATABASE.
Tony McNulty, the Home Office minister responsible, said
he was 'broadly sympathetic' to the suggestion. he didn't mention that
ONLY 1per cent of crime scenes
contain usable DNA, nor that virtually all of those caught through the
database have been persistent offenders
WHOSE DATA WOULD HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE ANYHOW.
Of course , we all want to catch criminals, but how much
of our
FREEDOM
are we prepared to
SACRIFICE
along the way?
The DNA database, if it included every person in Britain,
would be an unimaginable rich resource for an
UNSCRUPULOUS GOVERNMENT
It could allow politicians and the police, not just in
this country but around the world, access to the
MOST PRIVATE INFORMATION ANY PERSON CAN
HAVE-THEIR GENETIC CODE. From
this information, it could be possible to work out not just which
disease you might be susceptible to, but who are your real parents were,
and so on. This information would
be of incalculable value to an
AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT
but even an unscrupulous and commercial one could sell
these details to say INSURANCE
COMPANIES who would love to get
their hands on this kind of data.
They could use it to exclude from
LIFE INSURANCE
those with a genetic risk of, say heart attacks.
Insurance companies are already pushing to make genetic
testing compulsory for some kinds of insurance.
Nor would we be at risk from only
A WICKED GOVERNMENT
An incompetent one, which allowed internet hackers access
to information, would be just as damaging.
THE GOVERNMENT, for example, recently PUBLISHED the
PRIVATE and even INTIMATE details
of thousands of
JUNIOR DOCTORS
ON THE INTERNET.
Threat
And given that the Chinese recently managed to hack into
the
U.S. Department of Defence
it can surely be only a matter of time before our DNA
database is compromised.
Alternatively, imagine that your name was was attached to
the wrong DNA details, and you were mistakenly accused of some terrible
crime.
OUR PRIVACY IS UNDER THREAT
-not just from this database, but from a host of others.
The Government wants to issue us all with
ID CARDS
-containing our biometric - eyes, face, fingerprints
-details. Another database.
Then it wants to set up a children's database,
containing information on every child in Britain who the social services
believe is a risk.
And there is the biggest of them all, the £12
billion
NHS database, which if it ever works properly will put the confidential
medical records of every person in Britain on the internet, behind the
kind of firewall that is broken every day by computer geeks
[As we in the EDP can confirm]
And 6.5 million of us are already on the police
fingerprint database.
Nor should we stop with the databases held by the
Government. Everything we do on the internet is recorded by our
SERVICE PROVIDERS
and is available to the Government.
The same is true for all our phone calls, and our
location when we make them can also be tracked. Some
500,000
personal communications a year are intercepted by the
Government
AND THE VOLUME IS GROWING FAST.
Powers
NOT CONVINCED YET?
Britain has
4.200,000
CCTV CAMERAS
ONE for every 14 people,
one-fifth of ALL such cameras
on
[PLANET]
EARTH
Every move we make in our larger cities is monitored by
camera operators in anonymous control rooms.
The police have the legal right and the ability to track
movements of all cars and keep details on record for over five
years
The car insurance companies are experimenting with
putting satellite-tracking systems into cars as a condition of
issuing cover. They have been installed for some young drivers.
Meanwhile, the Government constantly takes new powers to
invade our privacy in other ways. The innocuous sounding regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act permits numerous government agencies -
including trading standards, environmental health officers and councils
- to engage in electronic surveillance.
Elsewhere, the poking and prodding around in our lives is
even more obvious; council tax inspectors have the right to descend on
our homes with digital cameras to take pictures of our bathrooms and
extensions.
Ironically, at a time when the rich are increasingly
using European-inspired privacy laws to conceal their doings from the
rest of us, the average Briton
HAS VIRTUALLY NO PRIVACY LEFT.
It's time to wake up to just how much information we have
already given
OUR GOVERNMENT
about ourselves - and to insist that some areas, above
all
OUR GENETIC CODE
-remain
FOREVER PRIVATE.
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[We have included this article on our website because of
the vital necessity for everyone to be aware that they have
A GOVERNMENT
which if you give way an INCH they will take a MILE at
LEAST.
As we have already stated there will be
NO computer Database kept by the
friends of england
as we more than any other have fought to protect the
RIGHT of FREEDOM and of PRIVACY
AND 'Rights and
Liberties' of Englishmen
which are even today being enjoyed in many parts of the
world ,particularly in the old Dominions of our once Empire that covered
a fourth part of the GLOBE. As
we have constantly stated we look on anyone from whatever part of the
world who has the spirit of the English within them as English. ]
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THE PEOPLE HAVE
SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING?
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Ditch the EU TREATY after IRISH
REJECTION
SAY VOTERS
by
Daniel
Martin
Political
Reporter
[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June
18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should
drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its
rejection in last week's
IRISH REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch
bid in the
HOUSE of LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION OF
THE TREATY.
And
10,000 people
have signed a
PETITION
on the
DOWNING STREET-
WEBSITE
within the past few days
JUNE16-2008
, calling on the
GOVERNMENT
NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL
[WHY DON'T YOU?]
Downing Street
website is
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/
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JUNE 18-2008
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IF YOU CAN SAY
'WE WANT OUT-WITHOUT
A DOUBT'
THEN
[Only an ultimatum by millions of
subjects that the new EU TREATY can never be accepted such as signing
the
RENUNCIATION of EU CITIZENSHIP
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Optout
Details from petition creator
With the signing of the Maastricht
Treaty the people of Britain were given
DUAL CITIZENSHIP
-both
EUROPEAN and BRITISH
The extra tier of citizenship was
thrust upon the people without their consent -and in many cases
knowledge.
The PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN should be
allowed the option of opting out of the EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP if they so
wish. The GOVERNMENT will then be able to provide those who have opted
out with
BRITISH DOCUMENTATION
-only such as British (not EU)
passports, driving licences and other national documents.
EU laws will also NOT APPLY to those who
HAVE OPTED OUT OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
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