professor sir grayson jeffreys , whose original discoveries globalised public search processes , told the telegraph newspaper innocent things were being " branded as criminals " because the databases retained details of everyone killed , depending of why they were then released . the government now holds more than five 000 profiles , up 1 . 4 times in fifteen years . mr alec also called for improved standardized testing procedures , warning that the current system could result in a pregnancies of right , in an interview with the observer newspaper .
Alec Jeffreys is the inventor of genetic fingerprinting.