Before you rush off into diatribes about privacy in this case.....
This proposal does very little to invade your privacy further than your number plate does at the moment. All the hot air in this thread about the government being able to track your car and do you for speeding is equally true for number plates being OCRed - a proven and widely used technology. But do I see lots of people ripping off their numberplates to defend their privacy? Naah!
Given that we allow compulsory numberplates, recorded in a (no doubt leaky) government database at the moment this is hardly going to impact on our privacy.
If we were talking about our clothes or shoes (or bodies!) being tagged, I could understand the furore, but this isn't going to make any difference to anything much.
BTW - I guess those of you moaning about loss of privacy have all stopped using your cellphones which can be easily tracked.....
"This mail was intended for someone who may, or may not, have been you. If it was not you, then you are instructed to read this section of the email (which has been conveniently placed at the bottom of the text after everything else) first. If, by some bizarre occurrence you read the rest of the email first and so have absorbed some probably trivial but maybe highly embarrassing, information, then you are to forget everything you have read (except for this disclaimer) and send the email back to the person who sent it to you asking them to do the same. Any other copies of the email are to be destroyed and if you have divulged information from this email to others then they are to be eliminated. If, however, you were the intended addressee, then you don't need to read this disclaimer at all. We apologise for this inconvenience."
Amazing how much we hear on this side of the pond about the understanding of geography amongst US citizens. New South Wales is about as far from Europe as you could get.
But I guess it is across an ocean for you Rightpondians, and that's all you need to know.
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This proposal does very little to invade your privacy further than your number plate does at the moment. All the hot air in this thread about the government being able to track your car and do you for speeding is equally true for number plates being OCRed - a proven and widely used technology. But do I see lots of people ripping off their numberplates to defend their privacy? Naah!
Given that we allow compulsory numberplates, recorded in a (no doubt leaky) government database at the moment this is hardly going to impact on our privacy.
If we were talking about our clothes or shoes (or bodies!) being tagged, I could understand the furore, but this isn't going to make any difference to anything much.
BTW - I guess those of you moaning about loss of privacy have all stopped using your cellphones which can be easily tracked.....
"This mail was intended for someone who may, or may not, have been you. If it was not you, then you are instructed to read this section of the email (which has been conveniently placed at the bottom of the text after everything else) first. If, by some bizarre occurrence you read the rest of the email first and so have absorbed some probably trivial but maybe highly embarrassing, information, then you are to forget everything you have read (except for this disclaimer) and send the email back to the person who sent it to you asking them to do the same. Any other copies of the email are to be destroyed and if you have divulged information from this email to others then they are to be eliminated. If, however, you were the intended addressee, then you don't need to read this disclaimer at all. We apologise for this inconvenience."
Sorry Coward - you lost me there!
But I guess it is across an ocean for you Rightpondians, and that's all you need to know.
(....where was Iraq again?)