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Cameras in UK for Toll Enforcement
cosyne writes "Saw this story on BBC News about charging people £5 per day to drive in central London. The interesting part: they plan to use surveillance cameras to snap liscence plates and compare to a database of people who paid. That's the same as stopping terrorism, right?" We mentioned this issue in an earlier story. It's an interesting challenge: the UK authorities have a problem (too much traffic in London) which is not susceptible to the usual solution (too many ways into London, can't put tolls on all of them) and so they're looking for new solutions - except most of the possible solutions are privacy-invasive in one way or another.
Once these are accepted, all Joe Privacy invader needs to do is hook up these readers at entrances to stores, restuarants, etc
OMG! And they will find out the very truth, invaded my privacy and now know that I DARED TO USE THE SUBWAY SYSTEM! O MY GOD! PLEASE DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN!!!
If someone wants to spy on me, go ahead, you'll be bored.
Why does everyone always bitch about the intrusion of privacy and the big brother watching and shit? Why do YOU think that someone may only have the slightest interest in you? You are not interesting, nor are your habits or where you go. As long as you do nothing illegal no one is going to give a shit! So please, please stop talking about invasion.
...because tax is literally and only theft. One robber is a thief. Ten robbers are thieves. A nationful of voting robbers-by-proxy are thieves, and entitled to precicely nothing.
You earned your property, keep it, by any means you can.
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