Media coverage
Highlights of media coverage about the report.
| Date | Media | Details |
| 7 May 2009 | Sky News | Interview with Hugh Whittall, Director, on Home Office proposals for DNA Database |
| 7 May 2009 | BBC News Channel | Live studio interview with Hugh Whittall |
| 8 May 2009 | The Wall Street Journal | Quote by Hugh Whittall in article: U.K. to Trim DNA Profiles in Database |
| 9 Dec 2008 | BBC Radio Birmingham | Live interview with Hugh Whittall on the Marper case verdict |
| 4 Dec 2008 | BBC Radio 4 World at One | Live interview with Hugh Whittall on the Marper case verdict |
| 4 Dec 2008 | Channel 4 News | Live studio interview with Hugh Whittall on the Marper case verdict |
| 4 Dec 2008 | Telegraph | Quote in article: Two million criminals are not on the police DNA database - but the details of one million innocents are |
| 4 Dec 2008 | Sky News online | Mention in article "DNA Database: Smith 'Disappointed" |
| 4 Dec 2008 | BBC News online | Quote in article 'DNA database 'breach of rights' |
| 4 Dec 2008 | Daily Mail | Quote in article "One million innocent people could have their profiles wiped from Britain's 'Orwellian' DNA database after court ruling" |
| 30 July 2008 | The Mirror | Quote in article: 'Citizens want innocent taken off DNA database' |
| 30 July 2008 | Scientific American | Quote in article: 'Citizens want innocent taken off UK's DNA database' |
| 30 July 2008 | Evening Standard | Quote in article: 'DNA database turns 'innocents into criminals' and a million records should be destroyed, warns watchdog' |
| 30 July 2008 | Sky News | Quote in article: 'Take Innocents Off DNA Database' |
| 11 April 2008 | The New Law Journal | Report referred to in article: 'DNA discrimination' by Azeem Suterwalla and Sarah Hemingway |
| 27 Feb 2008 | BBC4 World News Today | Interview on the National DNA Database with Dr Bronwyn Parry, Council and Working Party member |
| Dec 2007 | Counsel (The Journal of the Bar in England and Wales) | The troubled helix |
| 19 Oct 2007 | The New Law Journal | Article on report: 'DNA time to follow Scotland's lead?' |
| 5 Oct 2007 | BBC Radio Scotland, Scotland at Ten programme | Interview with Professor Graeme Laurie |
| 27 Sept 2007 | Nature Vol 449, Issue no. 7161, p377 | Editorial: Genome abuse |
| 24 Sept 2007 | BBC Radio 4 You and Yours | Interview with Dr Bronwyn Parry |
| BBC Radio Wiltshire | Interview with Professor Andrew Read | |
| BBC Radio 5 Live | Debate about DNA Database. Participants: Hugh Whittall, Tony Lake, Vivienne White (Panorama presenter) | |
| New Scientist | Article about launch seminar: Universal DNA database would make us all a suspect | |
| The Independent | Column by Deborah Orr: A lazy and prejudiced approach to crime | |
| The Times | Column by Magnus Linklater: We’re not fools — DNA evidence is far from foolproof | |
| 18 Sept 2007 | The Metro (London) | Plea to wipe out DNA files |
| Science Magazine | Rein in DNA Fingerprinting, Report Urges | |
| The Sun Online | Article about report: Cops told to scrap DNA samples | |
| BBC News Online | Experts call for DNA restrictions | |
| The Mirror | DNA database slammed by ethics expert | |
| The Daily Mail | The great DNA divide | |
| The Financial Times | Call for rethink on DNA of innocent | |
| The Telegraph | Storing DNA of innocent people 'unethical' | |
| The Guardian | Police must not store DNA details of the innocent - report | |
| The Times | DNA database 'puts innovent under suspicion' | |
| BBC regional radio stations: Leeds, Stoke, Ulster, Wales, York, Manchester, Shropshire, Cambridge, Jersey, Newcastle, Tees | Interviews with Dr Carole McCartney and Dr Bronwyn Parry | |
| BBC Radio Scotland, Good Morning Scotland | Interview with Professor Graeme Laurie | |
| BBC World Service, The World Today | Interview with Professor Graeme Laurie | |
| BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast News | Interview with Dr Carole McCartney | |
| BBC Radio 4 Today Programme | Interview with Professor Sir Bob Hepple | |
| Sky News | Interview with Professor Sir Bob Hepple | |
| BBC Breakfast News | Interview with Professor Sir Bob Hepple |
Last Updated Fri, 24 July 2009