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."

Outrage!

[falzer]

That cuts it, I'm moving to America!

A sad day.

[Anonymous Coward]

I have never seen a story where tinfoil hats were so neccesary, and so useless.

Good bye privacy. :-(

Re:Outrage!

[Sofalover]

Frying pan, fire.

Re:Just like gun legislation

[daspriest]

This will suck when the coppers knock on your door asking you why you went to a certain address at a certain time...

Re:Hmmm

[Petrushka]

I rather think anyone leaving their car at the Trafford Centre car parks has better things to worry about than the cameras.

Just never do anything wrong

[g0hare]

And you'll be fine.

privacy schmivacy

[TheTerrorized]

It's always refreshing to be reminded that there are still places that hold privacy in lower regard than America. But how long until we follow in Britain's footsteps?

Re:Welcome to 1984!

[FireFury03]

This cant stop "terrorists", they can go and buy a car for £1000 from any used car dealer whenever they like, or OMG they could get a bus or train.

Clearly you haven't used the public transport system in the UK :)

Re:future interrogation

[Anonymous Coward]

Only thing funnier than that video is that it has a broken "Take action" link at the end :)

Re:Hmmm

[goober1473]

especially if their wife has access to the credit cards...

Re:A sad day.

[Anonymous Coward]

You could put the hats over the cameras.

I've already left

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw this coming when Blair was first elected, I left the UK on the day Labour won the election.

I have returned for short visits occasionally and I am amazed at how much of a police state the UK has become already, and it is not as if any of it is making the quality of life any better. The measures used now just serve to make the general population more afraid and these new measures will just reinforce this fear, of course the criminals wont be bothered by these new infringements on civil liberties.

Why do governments insist on controlling the minutia of life? It is almost impossible for anyone to go for a day without breaking some law after all ignorance of a law is no excuse, and I have just found out that playing DVD's on a Linux box or shouting "nonesense" can both be illegal. Whay difference does it make to anyone but me if I drive without a seatbelt? My safty is my business and not that of a government or a so called public servant, if I make a reasoned decission that the risk of driving without a seatbelt is acceptable to me then the matter is closed.

By the way I currently live in Germany where there is very little crime as it is against the law.

And in an amendment to be passed next year

[Anonymous Coward]

"walking" will be deemed a suspicious activity.

Re:Fake license plates...

[Tim Browse]

If your car number plate is recognised in two different places within a short time that are far enough apart it would...

...issue you with a speeding ticket, I imagine.

SQL Inject

[QJB]

I wander if one could craft a number plate like this: '; DROP ALL;

Nothing to hide!

[Analogy Man]

If you have nothing to hide what is the problem with a daily cavity search and tissue sample?

Re:Fake license plates...

[Andrewkov]

It would detect duplicates easily.

If only this technology could be applied to Slashdot!

Re:Just like gun legislation

[telecsan]

Is that -40 Celsius or Fahrenheit?

*ducks*

Re:Just like gun legislation

[Gonarat]

Yes.

(couldn't resist)

Re:Just like gun legislation

[Anonymous Coward]

No, -40 Kelvin. :P