The ‘Surveillance Society’ Creates Another Data Base

The surveillance in the United Kingdom may become more efficient. In real time and in data bases, it may be possible to track the movements of a high percentage of the vehicles in the country:

“Leaked Whitehall background papers reveal that Home Office and transport ministers have clashed over plans for legislation this autumn enabling the police to get automatic “real-time” access to the bulk data from the traffic cameras now going into operation. The Home Office says the police need the data from the cameras, which can read and store every passing numberplate, “for all crime fighting purposes”.”

link: ‘Big Brother’ plan for police to use new road cameras

Your specific plate number could identify all your car activities - tracking in the name of security. Meanwhile, the concept of privacy would have been trashed. It seems that there are endless possibilities in the name of security. Perhaps the tipping point will be when the people responsible for security becomes just as frightening.

Catherine Forsythe

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