New Scientist is reporting that it will now be illegal to covertly analyse someone else’s DNA. While it is a shame this will happen to late to nail David Blunkett, who snipped his kids hair to identify paternity, it is nonetheless very welcome. DNA is seen to be very sensitive since it encodes the substance of who were are, biologically anyway.
It would also be nice if such illegally gathered evidence were inherently inadmissible at trial but then that should in Geeklawyer’s view be the default position.
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