dr sir alec jeffreys , whose pioneered discoveries revolutionised government investigation strategies , telling the guardian newspaper innocent people were being " branded as criminal " because the database holds details of everyone released , independent of which they were further convicted . the public now holds more than five billion profiles , up 1 . 4 million in two years . sir simon also demanded for improved genetic testing protocols , alert that the current network might result in a fetus of justice , in an article with the sentinel newspaper .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.