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."

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Around The World in a Tea Daze (whacky brits)

[CausticWindow]

Well, y'know, it's like this experience that I had was like, y'know, erm, it was kind of the most profound experience I've had in me life, like.

'I am a shaman, magician
The sun is purple
3D dimensions
I am for mental extensions.'

You know the mind has a thousand eyes

Re:This is hardly new

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

[OT]
J. Random Punter.

That's the British cousin of Joe Sixpack and John Q. Public, right? :)

[/OT]

Re:Does anyone else think

[NineNine]

Ah, so this is Bible shit? If the Bible was supposedly written 2000+ years ago, how in the hell did they know about smartcards and subways?

Mind games

[TheFlu]

I could've sworn that said: "Smacktards to Track London Computers"