Home Secretary gets an ass-kicking from Europe

You really do have to wonder what is going on when the rights of UK citizens are protected by the European Court of Human Rights(ECHR) in direct contradiction to the views held by UK Law Enforcement agencies. But, dear readers, that is exactly what has just happened as the ECHR has ruled that the retention of fingerprints and DNA samples and information on individuals who have not been charged with or convicted of a crime. This inevitably means that the UK own Human Rights regulation must be being breached by the holding of such information and is a small blow for civil liberties in the UK which seem to be under constant from a Government you'd expect to be broadly in favour of our freedoms. It remains to be seen what wriggling the authorities will perform to circumvent this ruling. Watch this space.