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Author Topic: Big Brother  (Read 1607 times)

Offline Wizzo

Big Brother
« on: February 16, 2007, 10:22:05 AM »
If you're worried about being watched, then you should be. The police's numberplate recognition scheme (ANPR) is about to go national.

The cameras first appeared on the streets of the City of London. The police use the cameras for anti-terrorism and congestion charge enforcement reasons. But now the thousands of ANPR cameras scattered around the country will be linked up to a national database that will go live between April and June this year.

It means the police will have access to some nine million vehicle movements a day, with the system capable of tracking up to 50 million. Data will be retained for two years, and will include the date, place and time of the sighting along with a digital photo of each car's numberplate.

It's being run by the Association of Chief Police Officers and funded by the Home Office. The advantages are, said ACPO, that illegal vehicles can be tracked. For example, if the same plate is spotted in Edinburgh and Bournemouth within an hour of each other, the software will flag this up as an impossible journey and alert the operator about a possible cloned vehicle. They track other kinds of crimes too -- but what else?

We're told that there are safeguards in place. Civil liberties group Liberty said it "had no problem with ANPR being used to locate vehicles whose owners the police firmly suspect of having committed an offence," according to a story in the Guardian, but that the ANPR system shouldn't be used to track individuals.

ACPO co-ordinator John Dean said that special approval is required if the cameras are to be used to look for an individual. Also, the data falls under the Data Protection Act and can only be used for combating serious crime if it's over 90 days old, according to the story. And they're not type-approved for speed estimation work either, we're assured.

Whether future governments of any hue can restrain themselves from mining such a wealth of data and use it only for the purpose that its intended is a moot point.



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Re: Big Brother
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2007, 01:28:56 PM »
We are just getting them in Garages at the moment....And bill boards telling customers that the recognition scheme is now in place.....
As you say Wizard Big Brother is here,and hear to stay.
The only worrying thing is how far will it go?
They may as well just chip us all and have done with it.

The Stig

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Re: Big Brother
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2007, 02:06:09 AM »

  most bad things start off
  with good intentions
Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

 


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