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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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  1. I've always wondered... by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  2. Re:Why are we discussing this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Where the fuck did my country go?

    Apparently it left with Clinton and Carter, seeing as how they did the exact same thing. Read: Aldrich Ames as an example.

  3. Re:Just like gun legislation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But to gun legislation's defence, it actually works. Crimes involving guns occur far less frequently in developed countries with stricter gun controls (UK, Oz, Canada) than in developed countries with looser controls (USA). And crimes commited without guns incur far fewer fatalities. So even if the crime rate were equivalent in non-USA countries but involved fewer guns (e.g. using knives instead), there would be far fewer innocent deaths.

    When the general population has very tightly controlled access to guns, criminals don't feel the "need" to have a gun as much. When they do have a gun, they aren't likely to get into a firefight with a shop owner getting robbed or to off them to prevent them "reaching for their gun" since they aren't likely to have one in the first place.

    And that is legislation that works.

  4. Re:Read your own article? by MartinB · · Score: 0, Troll
    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...

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    The only thing you can accurately describe as "Scotch" is a sticky tape made by 3M. And it's

  5. Re:Fed up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fed up with Labour. I already voted against them in this election, but seeing as my constituency is full of out of work 'scrounging from the government' layabouts who don't get off their fat asses because the government gives them armfulls of cash every month, it was hardly likely that the vote would go any other way.

    Did it ever occur to you to kill them?

    If you like where you live but believe that everyone around you is ruining your day, you either kick them out, find a better place to live, or kill them. The problem will simply be getting away with it.

    At the end of the day, how badly do you want what you want? Enough to spend years of your life at the mercy of the people around you? Why do you care about life, liberty and happiness for people that don't deserve it, that don't lift a finger for it? Why do you stand for that? Because you're not one to judge? Get over yourself!

    Don't allow democracy to sell you down the river. Your life is about YOU. I say kill them.