Back to speeding and cameras briefly - privacy

[Ken Brown]

michael wrote:
>
> Needless to say, there is, at least, according to
> Duncan Campbell (the freelancer), writing in the Guardian,
> 24 Sept 1997 :
> 
>         "All  vehicles entering or leaving the City of London
>         or  British  seaports  are  being  watched  by  robot
>         automatic number plate scanners (ANPS) which feed the
>         data to the Police National Computer (PNC) in Hendon.

[...snip...]

> Things look just as grim for rail travellers with tickets
> allocated unique five digit i.d. numbers allowing easy
> reference to person billing data.

So it's back to yachts out of small harbours on the east coast, in bad
weather to stop the satellite getting you, travelling by bicycle...
anyone read "The Riddle of the Sands" lately?  (A book it would have
been illegal to broadcast when Thatcher was PM...)

Ken