Britain to log all vehicle movement

dubbayu_d_40 writes "Using a network of cameras that can record license plates, Britain plans to build a database of vehicle movement for police and security services: rollout begins in March. Can't someone just swap/steal/disable the tracking device? Seems to me just another way to track the average citizen and not those wishing to avoid authorities."

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I've always wondered...

[AtariDatacenter]

Do we get those fascist ideas from Britian, or do they get them from us? Its like we're in some sort of private competition with them or something.

Re:Read your own article?

[MartinB]

You must keep in mind that this system is monitoring any car and keeping records for up to five years, so there's plenty of opportunities to do some creative correlations on the data. If system is smart enough to monitor color and make of a car as well as license plate, it becomes even more scary ("Red Ford Focus with license plate xyz123 mysteriously vanished, but a Blue Ford Focus with license plate abc456 which really should be on a White Renault Espace mysteriously materialized at roughly same location" => "we better schedule an informal chat with owner of xyz123")

You really think HMG is organised enough to be able to do this? You have such naive confidence...