Or — Another reason to get the hell out of the UK.
This was a link in Slashdot, a great article back from when Wired was still good.
Wired 4.12: The Transparent Society
Guess which path the UK took? From 2006 Britain will be the first country where every journey by every car will be monitored.
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.
Via: news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece
4 responses so far ↓
1 Jackdaw // Dec 22, 2005 at 6:59 PM
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2 Bjorn // Dec 22, 2005 at 7:01 PM
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3 Jackdaw // Dec 22, 2005 at 7:54 PM
Good, all working.
4 Bjorn // Dec 23, 2005 at 7:05 PM
I read something about this before, regarding your article, but when I read it was about charging toll fares for bridges, not tracking people.
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