Labour scores an amazing own goal over DNA database

The DNA database is a necessary and very useful tool. DNA information allows the Police to convict those guilty of crimes and exonerate the innocent. However, something that must never be done is to expand the database to store the information of innocent people. Yet, that is exactly what the Labour government has been doing, and what they have ordered chief constables across the United Kingdom to continue doing - in violation of European Court of Human Rights orders.

I am certainly not overly enamoured of the European Court of Human Rights (it often seems to involve itself in the kind of wide reading of 'human rights' that makes the phrase almost meaningless). However, is this really the issue we want to pick a fight with the Court on Human Rights on?