7,800 people's biometric data held on police anti-terrorism database

It's a lot, right? Loads deleted before cops investigate. Feel better?

The British plod is not only holding onto the biometrics data of 7,800 subjects of counter-terrorism investigations - most of whom have never been charged with an offence - it is also losing information on some suspects before they've been assessed as a national security risk, the Biometrics Commissioner revealed today."