“…5, in the EU, there is considerable variation among national forensic DNA databases regarding the criteria for including profiles and the periods of time and conditions for their retention and/or deletion (Cho & Sankar, 2004;Machado & Silva, 2016;Santos, Machado, & Silva, 2013;Van Camp & Dierickx, 2007). Thereby, such a scenario draws attention to the inherent heterogeneities of the Prüm regime, by binding together diverse regulations regarding the collection and retention of forensic bioinformation (Prainsack & Toom, 2013). Barbara Prainsack and Victor Toom (2010) explored the situated dis/ empowerment of the Prüm system on the basis of three dimensions: data protection, new investigative epistemology and increasing investment on DNA technologies.…”