Sentence examples for indefinite retention from inspiring English sources
"We will not seek to block this bill because the indefinite retention of innocent people's DNA is unacceptable and has been ruled illegal," said Grayling.
Before charges are laid he is fingerprinted, photographed and required to provide a sample of his DNA for indefinite retention by the police database.
They are signalling worries about, for instance, overlapping board members at Apple and Google, or the indefinite retention of search histories by search engines.
The court held that indefinite retention of DNA data from people questioned by the police but never prosecuted, was a breach of their rights, and not proportionate to the government's stated aim of using such DNA data to solve crime.
Lord Kerr, however, who gave a dissenting judgment, said: "the stigmatising application of the indefinite retention policy, even to those whose convictions are spent, frustrates the purpose of rehabilitation".
The government has faced strong criticisms on privacy grounds for its controversial DNA register and is being forced to limit the time that samples are stored for, following a European Court of Human Rights ruling that indefinite retention was illegal.
Forty-two percent of the forms disclosed that data/samples would be retained and disclosed the period of time (including if it was an indefinite period), or in the case of template forms, stated that researchers should specify the retention period(s).
There is no time limit on patient retention in the registry because duration of CRE carriage is unknown and studies suggest prolonged and possibly indefinite carriage (22 – 22 ).
