Independent - "Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Anyone want to bet that the information will be used for a lot of  
other things. If it was the USA it would be to set insurance rates;  
find violations of car rental agreements; evidence in divorces  etc  
etc  djf

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From: "Staple, Greg" <gstaple () velaw com>
Date: December 22, 2005 9:57:51 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: FW: Independent - "Britain will be first country to monitor  
every car journey"



FYI !!! from The Independent, UK

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 Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
From 2006 Britain will be the first country where every journey by  
every car
will be monitored
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 22 December 2005

Britain is to become the first country in the world where the  
movements of
all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance  
system
will hold the records for at least two years.

Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing  
number
plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so  
that the
police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has  
made over
several years.

The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which  
are
being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to  
provide
24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as towns, cities,
ports and petrol-station forecourts.

By next March a central database installed alongside the Police National
Computer in Hendon, north London, will store the details of 35 million
number-plate "reads" per day. These will include time, date and precise
location, with camera sites monitored by global positioning satellites.

Already there are plans to extend the database by increasing the storage
period to five years and by linking thousands of additional cameras  
so that
details of up to 100 million number plates can be fed each day into the
central databank.

Senior police officers have described the surveillance network as  
possibly
the biggest advance in the technology of crime detection and prevention
since the introduction of DNA fingerprinting.

But others concerned about civil liberties will be worried that the
movements of millions of law-abiding people will soon be routinely  
recorded
and kept on a central computer database for years......






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