Alarmed, on a blog that's after all primarily about business strategy, to be writing for the second day running about abuses of citizen privacy.
The Telegraph - now apparently transforming into an investigative powerhouse for the people - reports the pride that the Met are taking in a new strategy of "preventative DNA capture".
Youth as young as 10 are being arrested, specifically in order that their DNA can be taken and stored as long as is legally permitted. Whatever that means ... little to me I must say. Any trust in such softeners is long gone.
This is a cynical "guilty unless you somehow manage to stay innocent" strategy, made all the more startling by the statement in the article by an officer who bluntly outlines the core argument: if you know we've got your DNA, you're that much less likely to commit a crime.
Of course the usual punch-pulling devices will be hard on the heels of this lunacy - only in certain circumstances etc etc - but given that the make or break decisions will one assumes migrate back through the system - via layers of similarly data-obsessed amoral nutters - to the very cabinet that's falling apart due to its own comical failure to observe the most basic code of behaviour ... Is this a case of "Trust Me ... I know where you live"?
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