Protecting Privacy and the Public — Limits on Police Use of Bioidentifiers in Europe  

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Annas, George J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 361 no. 02 (Jul. 2009), page 196-201.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2009.04 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Since 9/11, police and military around the world have sought to increase their arsenals of bioidentifiers, and privacy advocates have sought to cabin their use. In what may turn out to be the most important court decision involving the privacy limits on police use of bioidentifiers by any court in the world to date, the European Court of Human Rights ruled late last year that the United Kingdom's laws governing the collection and retention of DNA profiles and samples by law enforcement officials violate the human rights of members of the Council of Europe.1 The Council of Europe, founded by 10 countries in 1949, currently has 47 member countries. The Council adopted the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in 1950, and it is the core document of the most comprehensive regional system of human rights protection in the world. Remarkably, the opinion was unanimous — signed by all 17 judges who were sitting as a Grand Chamber of the Human Rights Court — holding that the United Kingdom's retention policy "constitutes a disproportionate interference with the . . . right to respect for private life and cannot be regarded as necessary in a democratic society."

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