Jack Straw' View

[Roland Perry]

In article <003b01bfe5b8$5322dc80$3e0a989e@eloka>, Owen Lewis
<oml@eloka.demon.co.uk> writes
>Traffic analysis is traffic analysis. Be it electronic messages,
>vehicles on motorways or persons in a shopping precinct, there is no reason,
>it seems to me, to think any one of these to be more unfair or intrusive on
>privacy than the other.

I've always wondered about car number-plates. Do they pass the test of
specificity? Surely the fact they are attached to all cars, irrespective
of whether the driver is under (even self-certified) surveillance, means
that the movements of millions of innocent citizens are being monitored.
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