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Ten MILLION car journeys a day logged by Police

Civil liberty groups call for answers after 'Big Brother' scheme is uncovered

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Posted: 15 September 2008
by Visordown News

THERE IS a call for explanation after it has been revealed that as many as ten MILLION car journeys a day in the UK are being logged by the police.

A civil liberty group has said the information about where and how road users get about is to be stored on a national database for five years.

The claims are that as many as 10 million journeys a day are being recorded using the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system and that the figure is about to rise to as many as 50 MILLION trips every 24 hours.

The information is to be captured and held at a new National ANPR Data Centre in Hendon, north London.

The Home Office has confirmed that the data is now being kept for five years instead of the originally-planned two years.

According to The Guardian newspaper, there is an Association of Chief Police Ofiicers ANPR strategy document advising officers to "fully and strategically exploit" the data gathered. So here we have the latest step in the spy-plate scheme which looks set to be introduced by the Government over the next few years.

Already there are moves to bring in a law forcing every vehicle in the UK to have a tamper-proof numberplate that will be issued by the DVLA, if the plate is tampered with or even removed from a vehicle it will shatter.

Combine that with the pay-as-you-go tag system that the Government have suggested (the tag to be fitted in the numberplate is one option, so road users will not be able to remove it) and now the admission that 50 million journeys a day will be monitored and the information held to be exploited by the police, plus the upgrades in Sat Nav technology and the world of a constant speed-monitoring system linked directly to the police for 24-hours a day, from your own car is just around the corner.

Speed cameras on the decline? You bet they are. In a matter of a few years the police won't need them. If you do 71mph on a motorway your own bike or car will shop you to the cops instantly via the on-baord tag and Sat Nav monitoring system. And there'll probably be an electronic speeding ticket waiting for you on your email by the time you get home from your ride.

Clever, these politicians...


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IIIrd
and when that system gets fooled by someone, they'll micro chip us all

Posted: 15/09/2008 at 09:58


RiceBurner
I'd like to know what vehicles get 71mpg on the motorways these days - I could do with milage like that!!

Posted: 15/09/2008 at 10:31


jdvtr

No doubt all this 'data' will end up on a mislaid laptop on a train somewhere at some point.

Who's going to actually interpret this data and create something meaningful out of it?


Posted: 15/09/2008 at 12:39


R1 loon
I'm sure that any government wil be rushing out to implement this, especially as it is such a vote winner

Posted: 15/09/2008 at 17:06


FatBoyTim

"Already there are moves to bring in a law forcing every vehicle in the UK to have a tamper-proof numberplate that will be issued by the DVLA, if the plate is tampered with or even removed from a vehicle it will shatter"

this is getting sillier by the day, so that will mean no taking off the numberplate to fit a tail tidy, or even removing it to clean it

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeediculos


Posted: 15/09/2008 at 17:17


R1 loon
They'll have forgotten about bikes, like they always do

Posted: 15/09/2008 at 17:22


JayZ

As said this is getting stupid!

Fitting such technology to motorbikes is a little more difficult but as always in the world of I.T. there will be a work around or crack shall we say.  


Posted: 16/09/2008 at 13:27


Atomic Punk
FatBoyTim wrote (see)

"Already there are moves to bring in a law forcing every vehicle in the UK to have a tamper-proof numberplate that will be issued by the DVLA, if the plate is tampered with or even removed from a vehicle it will shatter"

this is getting sillier by the day, so that will mean no taking off the numberplate to fit a tail tidy, or even removing it to clean it

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeediculos


That is exactly what I thought when I read this WTF?????

Posted: 16/09/2008 at 15:48


Alan Haskins
Still finding it a bit scary though...

Posted: 16/09/2008 at 17:14


iBurty

The technology exists, it's easily justified on the grounds of 'safety' or 'terrorism' or whatever grounds.  Unfortunately it's getting cheaper all the time  - it won't be long before it's cost effective.

 I'm surprised that our beloved government hasn't forced all vehicle manufactures to fit id chips in all new vehicles at source....yet.


Posted: 16/09/2008 at 19:31


foody
Let's put a bit of realism into this stream... R1 Loon, you have the best signature photos on the net.

Posted: 16/09/2008 at 21:54

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