Big fuss at the moment about the possibility of having a database of everyone's DNA. Currently they have about 4.5 million out of a population of 60 million. If you get arrested, your DNA goes on the database even if you're never charged, or later found not guilty.
Lots of people say "if you're innocent you have nothing to fear, and plenty to gain by the fact that crime will be reduced".
My concern about it is this: there is an air of "infallibility" around DNA evidence at the moment, and it would be SO easy to fit someone up. Visit their house, get a sample of their DNA from their dustbin or their carpet, or follow them to the hairdressers... the police wouldn't find this too hard. Invite them to the police station for a chat, give them a glass of water, get the DNA off it.
So, you can end up back in the situation where, if some policeman decides he just "knows" you did it but can't prove it .... you could be wrongly convicted .... and policemen DO just sometimes get that "feeling" ....
