BBC News : Congestion charges face legal challenge

[Ken Brown]

Trivially - you can pay by phone or over the web. Or you can pay in
advance for a month or a year, without committing to visit London on
every day in that period. You could probably swap the plate between
vehicles and get away with it.

The point isn't to track vehicles, never mind people (though that's a
side-effect) but to cut down traffic & maybe make a little money on the
side. I think it would be A Very Bad Thing to rely on the data for any
other sort of information.

Ken

Ben Clifford wrote:
 
> Will it be possible to pay a fee for a registration plate that you aren't
> physically in possession of?
> 
> And hence prove that a vehicle was in London on a particular day when in
> fact it wasn't?
> 
> "It is in the database, it must have been there."