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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 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

S. and Marper in the United Kingdom

S. and Marper in the European Court of Human Rights

The Human Rights Court Decision

Justification for Retention in a Democracy

Implications of the Decision

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From the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston.

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