Re: Government Noses

[Brian Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 11:18:57 +0100 in
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> Or perhaps you can explain how you manage to obtain such information
> without prior surveillance of people who are only suspected of benefit
> fraud,  in such a way that your success hit rate is very nearly 100%?

One thing worth noting is the rapid appearance of some new cabinets
containing computing equipment beside many roads. These have a pole with
a south-facing solar cell array on the top and there are two large
magnetic loop antennas buried in the road right next to them.

The other day I was reading about the tagging of number plates with a
tag that will report on MOT and VED state of the vehicle as well as
possibly insurance state as well. Didn't take me long to put two and two
together regarding how these tags are going to be able to be read
routinely and frequently, and of course there is the possibility of road
pricing as well.

The tags will be arranged no doubt so that it will be an offence to
disable them, because after all when paper VED discs no longer exist it
will be the only way for PC Plod on the beat to check whether the
vehicle is road legal.

Now it seems to me that this is one way in which TPTB will shortly be
able to track a sizeable portion of the population as they make their
crime free way around the country, and doubtless the access controls on
the database will be as strict as those we have come to know and love.

I also note that I have hardly seen a mention of this in the mainstream
press, perhaps they haven't quite cottoned on to it yet.

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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