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At the moment, officers can take a sample from anyone they arrest, even if no charges are brought.But the court ruled that this process breaches their human rights, specifically the right to a private family life.The ruling could force ministers to remove the profiles of everyone arrested but not charged from the national database-believed to be 850,000 people.The Home Office says the database is a "key intelligence tool" and points to the prosecutions that would not have been solved without it.Some even argue that everyone's DNA should be held on record, on the basis that the innocent have nothing to fear.But human rights groups maintain that holding innocent people's personal information breaches their rights, and today's ruling is strongly in their favour.The database holds 4.4 million profiles, equating to about 5% of the UK population and making it one of the world's largest.Police say they make about 3,000 positive matches each month for a range of offences.Among the high-profile crimes cleared up as a result of the database include the 1988 murder of Cardiff prostitute Lynette White, whose killer was jailed for life in 2003.Senior police officers argue that inclusion on the database "does not imply that a person is an offender", and that as well as implicating the guilty, the database helps the innocent.Its defenders also say that any loss of privacy is proportionate to the benefits gained from having the database. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3547858/DNA-database-What-does-DNA-ruling-mean-for-the-UK.htmlTo watch the video,click on the URL below:
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