Big Brother cameras to track millions
This Is London [UK]
07/18/07
Labour has drawn up secret ‘Big Brother’ plans to hand the details of routine journeys taken by millions of innocent motorists to the police, it has emerged. Officers will be able to trawl private information recorded by traffic cameras when investigating even the most minor crimes, according to papers made public by an astonishing Government blunder. Once the controversial national road-pricing scheme is under way, short journeys to the shops, work or to visit friends will all be logged. … The internal documents, released in error, reveal the planned laws have already caused a deep Cabinet rift and critics said they were further evidence of a ‘creeping surveillance state’...
http://tinyurl.com/2kenla
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
07/18/07
Labour has drawn up secret ‘Big Brother’ plans to hand the details of routine journeys taken by millions of innocent motorists to the police, it has emerged. Officers will be able to trawl private information recorded by traffic cameras when investigating even the most minor crimes, according to papers made public by an astonishing Government blunder. Once the controversial national road-pricing scheme is under way, short journeys to the shops, work or to visit friends will all be logged. … The internal documents, released in error, reveal the planned laws have already caused a deep Cabinet rift and critics said they were further evidence of a ‘creeping surveillance state’...
http://tinyurl.com/2kenla
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
rudkla - 19. Jul, 14:55
