Prompted by Dylan's post about monitoring through store cards earlier today, here's a variation on the theme. It's worth being reminded that the Automatic Number Plate Recognition system, in operation in various parts of the UK, records information about drivers going about their daily business – taking and logging the registration and also capturing and retaining an image of the vehicle.
This information is shared not only amongst UK law enforcement organisations. Moreover though, on the pretext of potentially assisting "terrorism" investigations, this data is also shared with the authorities in the USA.
So not only are law-abiding people monitored by the state in this country – you are also watched from abroad.
Not a new story – but worth thinking about, isn't it..?
By Alex Deane