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Dienstag, 15.November 2005
The Register has an article on the UK government's plans to build a vehicle surveillance network along the country's roads:
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.
This will doubtlessly be useful in the war on terror. Even a public as tolerant towards public surveillance as the British might start to find this a bit overdone. I'm taking the train, thank you very much - until they start taking my fingerprint when I buy the ticket.
