Government defeat on DNA database - UK

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over the issue of keeping peoples' DNA and fingerprints on the police national database.

Peers backed a Conservative amendment calling for national guidelines for deleting material by 161 votes to 150.

Ministers said the safeguard was not needed and could hinder anti-terror operations but critics said innocent people should not be stigmatised.

The defeat is the latest inflicted by peers on the counter-terrorism bill.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7710310.stm

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Repeat - innocent people should not be stigmatised.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Conservatives in the unelected Lords having to safeguard individual rights

New Labour and Brown still have the authoritarian streak, don't they?

[LeftishBrit]

2. Woohoo!

Tut tut, you can't trust all those leftie Communists in the House of Lords!