The Nagoya High Court on Aug. 30 sounded the alarm about the current situation where anyone could be treated as a criminal suspect for life once they have been deemed as such by Japan’s law ...

The government must prevent police from storing the profiles of innocent people on the national DNA database, an influential group of experts has said.

The database helped identify another 233 crimes committed by 179 suspects through its cross-referencing system, in which suspects' DNA profiles sent from prefectural police are compared with DNA ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

In this Nov. 20, 2018 photo released by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is John Arthur Getreu. Northern California authorities say they have cracked a 45-year-old murder case using the same ...

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) plans to create a DNA database of the remains of 8,000-some war victims, officials have said. Ministry officials also said that they would reconsider ...

The failure of Scottish policing bodies to record the ethnicity of arrested people it takes DNA samples from means there is no way of establishing whether minority groups are over-represented in ...

Why are we asking this question now? Since its creation 11 years ago, ministers have taken great pride in the fact that this country leads the world in the creation of a national DNA database. But its ...