Brown defends database state / Computing, 20 June 2008
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2219726/brown-defends-database-state
"Prime minister Gordon Brown has rejected growing calls for an end to the database state. Brown defended the DNA database and proposed National Identity Scheme after former Tory shadow home secretary David Davis said they inflicted on civil liberties. The systems are vital to protecting the country against fraud and terrorism, Brown insisted. "Instead of rejecting the technologies of the modern world we should adopt them, while ensuring that the individual is properly protected against unfair or arbitrary treatment," he said."