Germany strikes down indiscriminate use of Automated License Plate Recognition technology

[Chris Edwards]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Dave Howe wrote:

| I noticed the other day that my local Sainsburys is using it to time how long
| cars stay in the car park... and it occurred to me that here was technology
| beyond orwell's worst nightmare, and apparently its now cheap enough to be
| used to check people don't use the supermarket as free parking.

Yep, our Tesco's done this for a couple of years.  And as I understand it, 
the data protection act lets them get your details straight from the DVLA 
- without involving the police or anything.