A barrister gossips & rants on intellectual property law, the legal system and civil liberties.
Geeklawyer went to a talk in which the pioneering journalist Duncan Campbell disclosed the sudden mysterious unbidden (by the citizens that is) sprouting of a number plate camera in Sussex to a startled local audience. Geeklawyer has been aware of these for some time but now they seem to have hit the mainstream media.
Continue reading ‘Road pricing scam scheme: the next trojan horse for a surveillance society.’
We Brits are the most surveilled nation on the planet with more cameras per square acre than everyone else put together. Geeklawyer hates that. He hates the future police plan for automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) that enables the capability that whenever he charges around on ‘The Terrible and Inexorable Wrath of God’ he will be watched and logged and his route and dalliances recorded in the Police National Computer. Oh sure, its all for his own good, to make him safe; it helps deny the roads to criminals and terrorists — yada yada.
Harry Metcalfe alerts Geeklawyer to the latest act of surveillance excess: total vehicle surveillance. Eventually a database of every vehicle movement on very road in the country logged for 2 years. With camera’s every 400 yards to enforce speed limits it should prove a nice little earner, but mainly of course it’s about “denying criminals the roads”, no honest, really. What happens when criminals start using high powered horses? Continue reading ‘surveillance madness’
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