TheOstrich wrote:It is a police state these days - the ANPR system, for example, has suddenly mushroomed and I see these cameras everywhere I drive these days. You cannot get in or out of the Birmingham conurbation, or on or off any of our local motorways without being picked up.
As I've mentioned before, every bus round here has internal and external CCTV. And we even have a "trojan bus" that transmits its CCTV images direct to a plain-clothes police car travelling behind it, where those real-time images are displayed on a tablet. It's said to be the first in the country. Apparently face recognition technology is due to be trialled next .....
Of course, it's all for our own good and safety.
There are also proposals that private cars be equipped with GPS technology so that their journeys can be tracked. This keeps coming back under the guise of, if you have one fitted you can get cheaper car insurance.
I think I am right in saying that all major UK cities are similarly ringed with ANPR cameras, Os. Certainly Leeds is.
