Tag Archive for DNA

Report on the surveillance society

Lord Norton

The report of the Constitution Committee on Surveillance: Citizens and the State has now been published.  A HTML version can be read here.  It has attracted considerable media attention: it is the lead story in The Guardian and has been widely covered by the broadcast media, including the BBC. Given that the committee deals with…

A thought for the Xmas holiday

Lord Soley

Last year in the House of Lords I suggested a national DNA data base. If we had one Rachel Nickel’s murderer would have been caught earlier and Colin Stagg would not have faced the possibility of life time imprisonment. I am more then ready to sign up. Are you?