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Smartcards to Track London Commuters
misterpies writes "Technophiles across London have been excited about the recent introduction of Oyster smartcards on public transport to replace old-fashioned paper tickets. Their enthusiasm might cool off now that London Transport has admitted that not only can the card be used to track your journey across London -- they're actually going to keep the data for 'a number of years'. Add that to their congestion charge cameras used for tracking car movements and pretty soon you'll have to stick to walking if you don't want your movements tracked. Until they implement those facial recognition systems that were such a great success in Tampa, Florida."
...AKA Eric Blair was from Britain. On the bright and happy side, I suppose it gives us another hacking project. Lets see how many times the Prime Minister can be made to transverse the tubes :>
I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T.
A day is going to come when condom makes put RFID tags on the outside of them condoms. Then the British government can start taxing that too.
Thats one way for population control, though.
Well, they can only track you by your smartcard ticket.
So if you're worried, just take your card and smash it all up with a hammer. Far more effective and much cheaper than any sort of jamming device. And the results are virtually instantaneous. I've heard rumors that this method also works 99.999% of the time.
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
No, wear normal clothes so you blend in.
There's crazy people who ride the subways in their jammers all the time. I saw a guy with scooby doo jammers on the other day.
He was really easy to track because he looked like a buffoon.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
My employer asked for a blood sample, urine sample, stool sample and sperm sample.. I gave them my underwear.
Trolling is a art,
readers should remember that Transport for London [tfl.gov.uk], who currently operate the tube network are a publically run company whose sole aim is to provide cheap and efficient travel for Londoners and visitors
That's exactly what they don't provide.
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How is London a subtle reference to 1984 being set in Britain? Unless some people think it's London, Ontario? It'd be just like those unfunny Can-a-dians to pull something like that.
I drank what? -- Socrates
when the damn trains never move except to derail? -disgruntled Tube user
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Easy address to remember: 10 Downing Street. Try using Anthony Blair, he's the John Doe of the UK.
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Looks like Ingsoc is alive and well in the UK!