Open source DNA movement.

Expoitation of the masses for the masses.

The genomixer has also applied for public IPO. If any venture capitalists would like to express interest, ie investment please get in touch. The IPO will allow the database of users to be accessed by other company research and all monies derived from exploitatation and investigation of our pooled dna will be shared. Which is opposite the position of the Welcome Trust and its biobank, in that if you donate a sample they will use your dna for profit and sell the information to publically listed drug company.

Other DNA databases include the store which is held by the police, which now has 2,000,000 dna profiles. It's intertesting to note that the police actually own these records and the database, ie it "owns" the dna profiles of the 2000000 people they have gathered material from. They also own its research value. And once more the data is not allowed for public access or research. The police and the forensic department are currently thinking of selling its labs to a private company.

So who owns your DNA? Do you feel comfortable with the knowledge that other people "own" these rights and may exploit this information?

UK judge lets police keep DNA from innocents
23 March 2002

A UK court has confirmed the right of UK police to keep DNA they collect from suspects during an investigation, even when they have been found innocent and do not want their profiles kept on a DNA database. The Guardian and Ananova report that a 12 year old boy arrested in connection with a robbery - but later aquitted - had been refused his request that fingerprints and DNA samples taken from him should be destroyed. South Yorkshire police told him that they would be keeping the forensic samples "to aid criminal investigation". In another case police kept samples taken from a man during a domestic dispute, even though his partner decided against pressing charges. In rejecting their joint appeal to have the samples and records destroyed, Justice Leveson and Lord Justice Rose admitted that their decision "might arouse strong feelings" but insisted that police policy did not contravene human rights laws.

"This is a very disappointing decision - it must be wrong in principle to collect up DNA samples from innocent people," said a Liberty UK press release, while Sir Alec Jeffrey - inventor of forensic DNA
testing - called it "discriminating, inconsistent with privacy laws, and an example of ad hoc sloppy thinking."

The decision opens the way for the unchecked expansion of of the UK DNA database, as regular mass DNA testing carried out by UK police sweeps vast numbers of innocent people into the forensic
testing net. Although keeping massive numbers of samples from innocent people is expensive and of limited value for law enforcement, it represents a lucrative resource for UK authorities, who have
indicated that they intend to sell medical samples to Big Pharma for research and bioinformatic speculation.

UK police have announce another mass DNA screening in the Fife village of Methil in which boys as young as 12 will be tested in an attempt to solve the rape of a local schoolgirl, reports Ananova.com. Although the victim described her attacker as being in his early 20s, Detective Inspector Alan Small has indicated that over 1000 men aged between 12 and 40 living near the crime scene will be expected to 'volunteer' samples. Police assured the media that samples would be destroyed "once someone is eliminated from the investigation" but made no guarantees about the data obtained from the testing. UK police are notorious for failing to remove DNA information from the FSS database when it is required by legislation. Following the collapse of several cases last year when vital DNA evidence was found to have been retained unlawfully the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, pushed through legislation allowing police to keep DNA records indefinitely - even if illegally collected. "It seems that living near an unsolved crime scene is now considered grounds for suspicion", said Justice Action spokeman Michael Strutt. "Are we expected to surrender our genetic privacy simply because police are unable to crack a difficult case?".

UK Forensic Science Service DNA database is on track to reach its target of 3 million DNA profiles of UK citizens by 2004, reports Ananova.com. This is expected to result in one in eight adult British men having their DNA routinely checked against unsolved crime scenes. The Home Office has spent £187 million since April 2000 to expand the database by 2.5 million profiles over four years - with the 1.5 millionth profile entered this week. At the same time, legislation has been introduced expanding the reach of police DNA testing and abolishing requirements that profiles be deleted when an investigation is complete, a suspect has been eliminated or police have obtained a DNA sample illegally.

Genomixer conclusions are obvious...Draw your own.