Innocences is no defence against large numbers.
Mainstream, Justice system, Evidence and Privacy
The DNA database is a poorly thought out and ill considered idea. I am not talking about the privacy implications. I am talking about evidence to implicate innocent people in crimes they know nothing about.
The combinatorics of large numbers means that if you have a large database you will have people who are innocent being falsely implicated. The risk of this happening in the future grows exponentially as the size of the database grows. Given the number of prosecutions using evidence from the database that already exists I am not at all sure it has not already happened.
Rufus Evison
ReasonedRants.Blogspot.Com
For more information about the reasoning see http://reasonedrants.blogspot.com/2007/09/dna-databases-sending-innocent-people.html
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