DNA database
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White Paper The Sanger Institute was one of the major team members in the Human Genome Project, the international effort to define human chromosomes, genes and DNA sequences. The Institute wanted to provide storage capacity to... [22 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Johnson will also have ultimate responsibility for the National DNA Database kept by UK police. The database was recently the subject of a ruling by the European courts, saying that the... [10 Jun 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News These include the National Identity Register, the communications database behind the Intercept Modernisation Programme, and the National DNA Database. The National DNA... [23 Mar 2009]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News Booth said the National Identity Register (the database behind the National Identity Scheme), the ContactPoint child database, the NHS central care records system, the e-Borders... [10 Feb 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News The UK is now watched by more about four million CCTV cameras and details of seven per cent of the population is held in the National DNA Database (NDNAD) - more than any other country, according to... [06 Feb 2009]
Investigation to turn inward on Ripa
News In her speech, Smith also conceded that the issue of the UK's vast DNA database "had been put back in the spotlight" by a recent European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision, which ruled that countries... [17 Dec 2008]
One million people's details could be culled from DNA database
News Nearly one million innocent people's DNA records could be wiped from the national database after the EU ruled it breached human rights. The European Court of Human Rights decision means that the... [05 Dec 2008]
Calls to delete profiles from DNA database
News About one million people should have their profiles deleted from the National DNA Database, an inquiry has suggested. The inquiry findings also backed the removal of DNA records from the... [30 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News Thomas said privacy was already being quietly eroded, citing examples of the expansion of the DNA database and the centralised collection and retention of data from automatic number plate recognition... [15 Jul 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment These traits are used to identify people by certain characteristics that are either physiological - such as faces, fingerprints, irises, veins and DNA - or behavioural - such as voices, signatures and... [23 Nov 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 07.09.07
Round-Up Podcast Apple's new-look iPods, a UK-wide DNA database, mobiles vs pets and flashmobbing all up for discussion in the latest Weekly Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Tony Hallett,... [07 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database After every police officer in the UK has volunteered to have their DNA on the database, we'll talk about the rest of... [07 Sep 2007]
Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database
News A senior judge has called for a universal national DNA database containing the details of every UK citizen and visitor to the country. In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme Lord Justice Ledley... [05 Sep 2007]
Loan Servicing and Management Software Gets a Boost From Visual Basic .NET
White Paper Its existing Enterprise system was based on the Microsoft Windows DNA architecture. After evaluating other options, Midland standardized on Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for all new development, Microsoft SQL Server for... [03 Jul 2007]
Birmingham Airport launches biometric security
News He added that iris-scanning is the "most reliable biometric" - and is about six orders of magnitude more accurate than a biometric DNA sample. The biometric technology works by photographing a passenger's iris pattern... [06 Feb 2007]
