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Chris Wells
gfk43 at dial.pipex.com
Tue, 04 Jul 2000 19:10:52 +0100
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>On the subject of car number plates yes they do give a pretty good idication
>most of the time of the possible whereabouts of an individual at a given
>time. if the data could be correlated efficiently ( I do not think there is
>a recognition system in place, but again could be wrong), then the use of
>such data if not related to a specicific investigation and was used as
>database, then I think this would be a breach of the HR/ECHR.
I was under the impression they already had such a system up and running in
the "City of London".
IIRC, they even have cameras to take a pic of the drivers face, with
experimental facial recognition software.
C.
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