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European Court of Human Rights limits DNA and fingerprint databases

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 5 2009

At a December 4 hearing in Strasbourg, France, the European Court of Human Rights announced a potentially far-reaching decision restricting the authority of European governments to retain the genetic material, genetic profiles and fingerprints of persons once targeted as criminal suspects but not convicted