Do you feel bereft when you climb into your car and drive away from his gaze?
Well fear not.
The Independent: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
By Steve Connor, Science EditorPlus The Independent also examines Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start.
Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.
Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.
The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to provide 24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as towns, cities, ports and petrol-station forecourts.
By next March a central database installed alongside the Police National Computer in Hendon, north London, will store the details of 35 million number-plate "reads" per day. These will include time, date and precise location, with camera sites monitored by global positioning satellites.
I wish I had more time to write but I have to go to work now. I'll come back to this later. But for now V for Vendetta is becoming evermore prescient.
Labels: Security, Surveillance
