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November 17, 2005
What Kind of Eye Never Blinks? The Surveillance Camera Mate!
From the UK Register comes word of this new anti-terror crime-fighting program. To wit:
"A "24x7 national vehicle movement database" that logs everything on the UK's roads and retains the data for at least two years is now being built, according to an Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) strategy document leaked to the Sunday Times. The system, which will use Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), and will be overseen from a control centre in Hendon, London, is a sort of 'Gatso 2' network, extending, enhancing and linking existing CCTV, ANPR and speedcam systems and databases."
It might actually help nab a crook or three, but on the other hand, the snoops will have real-time knowledge of where your car is 24/7 pretty much anywhere you go in urban England. And no doubt this program will spread to the rural locales of Albion shortly too, no doubt.
This kinda shit is enough to make you a Luddite. Or me anyhow.
(Thanks to Claire at Wolfesblog for this tidbit.)
Posted by Ali Massoud at November 17, 2005 10:43 AM
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