Wednesday, January 04, 2006

World's biggest DNA database gets larger / Silicon.com, 4 Jan 2006

http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39155335,00.htm
"The number of records on the UK government's DNA database has passed the three million mark, and the number of crimes solved using the profiles continues to rise.
Just over five per cent of the UK population is on the database, compared with one per cent in Austria - the second biggest user of the technology - and half a per cent in the US."