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It's a bit like saying the US has a problem with buildings being crashed into by planes...]]>Dec 22nd 2005 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/Dec 22nd 2005 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1746975,00.html]]>Dec 22nd 2005 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


Though they've probably thought of that...]]>Dec 22nd 2005 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/Dec 22nd 2005 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


The Nazis, Communists and other oppressive governments would have succeeded at a greater level with these privacy-invading systems in place. Does anyone remember Hitler? Stalin? Pol Pot? Do you trust YOUR government to do the honest, truthful, just and fair thing?



To "justify" the use of these systems to capture pictures of terrorists committing suicide with bombs is a red herring. After the attack is done, the cameras prove no help at all, other than to say "hey, this guy did it."



You need to find the source of the anger of the terrorists, and understand it and take steps to lesson the desire to commit suicide to prove their point. Taking away the rights of EVERYONE and handing government immense power over the people by logging their daily activities is a bigger crime and more deadly than any terrorist attack the government intends to "thwart".]]>Dec 22nd 2005 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/Dec 22nd 2005 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/Dec 22nd 2005 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


And most of our sheep, I mean citizens, oh what the hell, I mean sheep, are all to eager to piss away their privacy and freedom for some trumped up claim of "security".



If you will excuse me I am going to go ponder why airplane cockpits still have paper mache doors if my gov. is really interested in protecting me.]]>Dec 22nd 2005 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/Dec 22nd 2005 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/Dec 22nd 2005 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/
When those who have no rules insist on others sticking to rules....look at Sadam accusing his captors of torture and realise that he is using the system his captors have initiated to redirect his own iniquities. Sorry to say....brilliant. What does this have to do with Cameras? To keep the staus quo, one must become more beastly than the beast who has different values.

Bottom line: Your egg is gonna get broken.

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When those who have no rules insist on others sticking to rules....look at Sadam accusing his captors of torture and realise that he is using the system his captors have initiated to redirect his own iniquities. Sorry to say....brilliant. What does this have to do with Cameras? To keep the staus quo, one must become more beastly than the beast who has different values.

Bottom line: Your egg is gonna get broken.

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For example, instant dismissal and a court trial for a surveillance worker found looking down the top of a hot young blonde in a convertible, writing down her license plate number and looking up her phone number...]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


(/sarcasm if anyone didn't get it!)]]>Dec 22nd 2005 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


Something going on I don't know about??]]>Dec 23rd 2005 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


BTW. The real story here is that there are plans afoot to introduce road charging, like the London congestion charge, covering large areas of the country. The current way of doing this requires number plate recognition cameras. All the other stuff about terrorists and tracking criminals is just a happy extra benefit that can be used to sell the idea of road charging. Now currently motorcycles, electric and hybrid cars are exempt and since my main transport is a large scooter and I'm planning on a hybrid as the family 4 wheeler, this shouldn't affect me much either.



Welcome to the panopticon. Of course, what should really happen is that every one of those cameras should become a webcam with public access. But in some ways that's even scarier even if it does create limits on government abuse. Which is of course why it won't happen. Note here that every time something vaguely interesting happens in London all the traffic cams go off line.]]>Dec 23rd 2005 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


The fact is, regardless of what Dubya and his Blair Snitch Project say, we are actually safer now than we have been for years. It was much worse in the UK under the IRA, and they didn't do much (if anything) about it then.



So why all the neo-conservatism and 'control through terror'? Because that's how you control a people - wake up everyone and realise your right for certain basic civil liberties, or else we'll end up in a policed state.]]>Dec 23rd 2005 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/


Police in Glasgow rely far too much on cameras and once it goes to court usually the case is flung out because the camera footage is blurred and unusable, these cameras will only be used for taxation …..

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Which is just another way that my country is keeping track on us but I guess its for the greater good]]>Dec 23rd 2005 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/Dec 23rd 2005 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/Dec 23rd 2005 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/22/uk-cameras-to-track-every-car-on-the-road/
Ensist that your new car should be fitted with these as standard.

Report any suspicious characters messing about with number plates in quiet car parks to the police. If you return to your car and find both number plates missing, then it is your responsibility to report this asap.]]>Dec 23rd 2005 11:01AM