It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car

New submitter blastboy writes "Every day in Britain, a vast system of cameras tracks cars on the road, feeding their movements into a database used by police. And because that data is networked, cops can use it to go back in time — or even predict your movements. But even though there are serious concerns about the technology, and it's regularly been abused by law enforcement, it has now been exported by the Brits and put in place by police departments around the world."

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Re:Quite a bit different than NSA tracking

[Nidi62]

If there's no expectation of privacy on public roads, then why do people get freaked out if they notice someone following them?

For the same reason people don't worry that people can see them when they are out in public, but freak out when they notice someone staring at them. You are being singled out and focused on, and probably not for something good.