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

Posted by Soulskill on from the they-know-what-you-did-last-summer dept.

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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  1. Re:State Abuse... by TheCarp · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I could have sworn it wasn't meant to be taken as an instruction manual. Possibly the worst mistake since that whole fiasco about serving man.

    Which, coincidently is the movie reference that pops into my head whenever I see a cop car with "to protect and serve"

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    "I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
  2. Re:State Abuse... by erikkemperman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thank you. I was waiting for a 1984 reference to appear... It provides me with a lame excuse to plug another British writer (sort of) I've stumbled across recently:

    Arthur Koestler

    He wrote about totalitarianism as well, but much more subtle and less dramatic then Orwell. To each his own, but I have a new favourite dystopianist.

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    Gosh, thanks. That must be why the other ships call me Meatfucker -- GCU Grey Area (Eccentric)