London's pricing scheme suffers "scope creep" in the name of security

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

It is this type of creep that worries many about airline TIA like systems.


Dave


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From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:39:13 -0800
To: dave () farber net
Subject: London's pricing scheme suffers "scope creep" in the name of
security

Dave, you may be interested in this case of egregious security "scope
creep":

London today begins a new congestion-management scheme based on
charging an access fee in order to use central London.  It's being
implemented via traffic cameras that scan the cars' number plates.  As
recently as last week the system was being described as "only able to
scan license plates" but it is now obvious that  the system was not
even designed that way.

London charge zone is security cordon too, says mayor
By John Lettice
Posted: 17/02/2003 at 14:18 GMT

And with one bound, the Ken formerly known as Red repositions himself
as a Big Brother privacy nightmare. London Mayor Ken Livingstone has
previously, as we noted yesterday, claimed that data from the cameras
in London's congestion charge zone would not be recorded and used for
other purposes.

<snip>

He's claimed that the cameras can be used to view drivers' faces,
speaking on Sky News and LBC, and our LBC spotter tells us "Livingstone
explicitly confirmed that the cameras were controllable remotely, had
variable angles and zoom levels and would be used when needed to assist
law enforcement efforts." The best stuff we've had so far however is
the Capital phone-in, a transcript of which is available here.

<snip>

Read the full thing at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29355.html


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