Traffic Surveillance Cameras To Monitor Personal Behavior
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UK: Surveillance on drivers may be increased
Guardian [UK]
03/07/06
Drivers talking on mobile phones or failing to wear seatbelts could find themselves tracked down through a widened use of road surveillance cameras, under proposals due to be floated in parliament tomorrow. The plans would form part of a major expansion of camera surveillance which critics say is already transforming Britain into the most watched country in the world. The case for cameras to be focused on people using mobiles as they drive is made by the independent adviser to the transport select committee, Robert Gifford, of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (Pacts)...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,1725229,00.html
Hong Kong considers surveillence law
United Press International
03/03/06
Hong Kong's government has published a proposed wiretapping and covert surveillance bill. Analysts predict that discussion over the proposed legislation will be stormy and contentious as it opens the possibility that Beijing could help determine who might be targeted under the law. The 88-page bill was approved by the Executive Council on Feb. 28 and distributed to legislators the next day. The legislation is largely a continuation of previous Legislative Council proposals and incorporates several earlier, controversial measures that pro-democratic legislators have criticized for weeks. If the bill is enacted it will establish a judicial panel along with a commissioner on interception of communications and surveillance, which will have the power to decide on wiretap and surveillance applications in 'highly intrusive' cases...
http://tinyurl.com/j64kn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
UK: Surveillance on drivers may be increased
Guardian [UK]
03/07/06
Drivers talking on mobile phones or failing to wear seatbelts could find themselves tracked down through a widened use of road surveillance cameras, under proposals due to be floated in parliament tomorrow. The plans would form part of a major expansion of camera surveillance which critics say is already transforming Britain into the most watched country in the world. The case for cameras to be focused on people using mobiles as they drive is made by the independent adviser to the transport select committee, Robert Gifford, of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (Pacts)...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,1725229,00.html
Hong Kong considers surveillence law
United Press International
03/03/06
Hong Kong's government has published a proposed wiretapping and covert surveillance bill. Analysts predict that discussion over the proposed legislation will be stormy and contentious as it opens the possibility that Beijing could help determine who might be targeted under the law. The 88-page bill was approved by the Executive Council on Feb. 28 and distributed to legislators the next day. The legislation is largely a continuation of previous Legislative Council proposals and incorporates several earlier, controversial measures that pro-democratic legislators have criticized for weeks. If the bill is enacted it will establish a judicial panel along with a commissioner on interception of communications and surveillance, which will have the power to decide on wiretap and surveillance applications in 'highly intrusive' cases...
http://tinyurl.com/j64kn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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