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Black box in car to trap speed drivers
Drivers face automatic speeding fines without being caught by the police or roadside cameras under a proposal being studied by the Government to fit all cars with satellite tracking devices for road tolls.
... transport experts believe the equipment will pave the way for 24-hour monitoring of drivers to see if they break the speed limit. It could also be used to determine whether drivers were speeding before an accident.
and presumably where they go and thereby who they were with? For this information to be any use in prosecutions, it would have to be stored, with obvious dangers to the personal freedom we have come to expect in post-fuedal society.
So, we've got ID cards, internet/phone traffic surveillance, the new London Transport Oyster cards hooked up to the newly-computerised Travelcard holder database, the Congestion Charge cameras, High Street CCTV and now this. The net is nearly complete.
Still, Big Brother was a laugh, wasn't it? And we've got to do something about the evil dole scroungers/asylum seekers/terrorists/murderous drivers, haven't we? What's for tea? |
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