Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey

[Drew]

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.


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[Drew]

That is Scarey

[messylaura]

then every one in the uk on certain days should make up the same licence plate and drive around with it on there car LOL

who cares anyway let them watch its not like anyone dont know about the 50 pixels that are in every computer moniter that forms a camera that is "always on"

[[N0M3RCY] M4TR1XM4N]

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.

What is the point of this, except to erode our civil liberties even further?

Soon we won't be able to go ANYWHERE without being monitored.

[IslandgurlPatty]

That is Scarey

Ya I agree..... It's going to get worse though... I dunno but if I lived in England I'd have 7 cars , one for every day of the week to try and mess up their data base on me .

[[N0M3RCY] M4TR1XM4N]

................or not own a car.

[Blondie]

then every one in the uk on certain days should make up the same licence plate and drive around with it on there car LOL

who cares anyway let them watch its not like anyone dont know about the 50 pixels that are in every computer moniter that forms a camera that is "always on"

Guess I better go get dressed

[[N0M3RCY] M4TR1XM4N]

No need to rush, I can see you from here.

[Khaizerex]

Good God!

Big Brother's watching you...

That is very scarey...

[[N0M3RCY] M4TR1XM4N]

Yes, I am watching. I can see what you are doing right now.

[messylaura]

yeah the camera pixels are usually in groups of five, with the center one being sound capture, some control code the big brothers have can turn them on and off

simple really if they suspect a terrorist etc they drop in for a look

most probably the screen in front of you has then in it, i cant remember what type of screens have them but definatly the flat screens do.

[Riding the Train]

That’s why I have on my Bullwinkle hat. I wouldn’t want them to recognize me.

[cerina]

They already have the capability to monitor the movement of a large proportion of the population, and don't forget just how much information is stored on the magnetic strip of your credit/debit/store cards.