UK's MI5 Wants Oyster Card Travel Data

Boiled Frog from a Nation of Suspects writes "The Oyster card, an RFID single-swipe card (which was recently cracked), was introduced to London's public transport users purportedly to make their lives easier. Now, British Intelligence services want some of the benefits by trawling through the travel data amassed by the card to spy on the 17 million Britons who use it. The article notes, "Currently the security services can demand the Oyster records of specific individuals under investigation to establish where they have been, but cannot trawl the whole database. But supporters of calls for more sharing of data argue that apparently trivial snippets — like the journeys an individual makes around the capital — could become important pieces of the jigsaw when fitted into a pattern of other publicly held information on an individual's movements, habits, education and other personal details. That could lead, they argue, to the unmasking of otherwise undetected suspects."

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Exactly.

Let's not forget to use a high interest rate credit card to buy the pizza, unsustainable transport technologies to get the pizza to you, and let's add lot's of good ol' chemicals to it as well :)

Ohhh, and let's also spend 15$ on text messages to American Idol too.

I often have the same thoughts as the parent of your post too, until I see my shiny spinning tires....

Panem et circenses INDEED!

God this is depressing me. Time for some good ol' municipal water filled with *free* mood stabilizers :)