Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
From the respected British newspaper, The Independent:
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....
25 December 2005, by Steve Connor, Science editor
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." -- George Orwell
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The fight is coming, folks, which we all knew was coming, to preserve our basic liberties. Soon, we will be stirred to action (and I say this as a lazy bastard who dreads such an outcome, but I fear it will be forced upon us). We all know that technology was leading to a confrontation between our liberty and control by a few.
[Personal aside] This was first posted, with minor modifications, as a comment to orthogonal's excellent diary,"A cop in your trunk: mandatory GPS tracking for all cars", on U.S./DOT plans to monitor U.S. automobile location and movement;. But with all the recent revelations about domestic spying by the NSA, it seemed this news deserved an extra push of publicity. Like orthogonal, I find this kind of news very scary!