Wiping of DNA and fingerprint records 'puts public safety at risk'

There is nothing to hide, but they will find something that is not there whether there is anything to hide or not!!!

You guys are too trusting of your peers.

And yet on the other hand you don't seem to trust the government on lots of issues?

Any society that has got to the point of meticulous tracking of its citizens every move is a society that you should not be a part of in my opinion.

The right to disagree with the democratic majority is a freakin essential that you lose when you are fully tracked everywhere and all of the time.

That is a naïve viewpoint in an idealised world, it assumes that your government will always be benevolent.

Classify you as a person who is potentially dangerous to their view of the world, say Corbyn or someone even more extreme got in (right or left as I mentioned the other day) the government (not the same as the party in government) have enough on you already to make decisions on who is good or bad in their world view.

Anyone can be turned into a minority under any government's current agenda.

And to specifically answer your direct question, your DNA, if they had it, would now be able to tell them when you are likely to croak, so they can make decisions about your pension, and about your employment, if you have a history of heart disease for instance, they can make assumptions about what possible illnesses you and your children might be susceptible to in the future, guesses, and that could result in you being banned from all kinds of occupations.

Got a marker for heart disease, ok you can't drive, you can't be a pilot, you can't work in any critical industry, oil included due to safety, a hundred other markers exist for all kinds of conditions that could affect what you are allowed to do in this wonderful democratic world we live in.

The problem is that none of the markers will be absolute or definite, people with a marker are not guaranteed to get ill, ever!

If only we could cut their heads off that easily

You're on a different planet from me Tim.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories either, witness my many comments and jokes with 'boots', I am a realist, we are not talking about conspiracy theories here we are talking about the real world, your view of it is different from mine.

Sometimes I just wish I could throw my iPhone and get my Motorola Gleam fired up again - no tracking, no GPS, no email, no Facebook, just phone calls and text messages.

I don't agree with the EU precursor bit, by the way, Dave but all the rest spot on sir!