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  and keeping DNA records of innocent people indefinately. This surveilance society has gone far too far and this is just one aspect of the ever more powerful, intrusive, nannying and authoritan State in which we now live.
  
  Chris Grayling has made an important comment that I would hope sets the theme for the next Conservative Government to reverse this trend.
  I copied this extract from Conhome this morning:
  
  "People know that I believe we should be tough on crime. DNA data plays an important part in many modern criminal investigations. So it should be taken and used where needed. But I also believe in the fundamental principles of our nation - and one of the most important of those is that people are innocent until proven guilty. So if the system judges someone innocent, or if they are only peripherally involved in a case, there is no excuse for storing their DNA indefinitely. This practice has now clearly been ruled illegal by the courts. It is morally wrong as well. Yet Ministers are dithering about what to do. It's very simple. They should stop breaking the law, and remove this data right now."
  
  This is only the tip of the iceberg though. Even more sinister in my view are these proposals to put tracking devises in all cars so the authorities will know where we are at all times. It will be used for road pricing and to identify and prosecute speeding drivers but, of course, the potential for abuse of this system is huge. We are becoming a police state and the next Government must reverse this before it is too late.

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