United Kingdom: Britain Becomes Domestic Spying Capital of Europe
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
No Comments | January 17th, 2006 | Trackback
In this age of surveillance, Britain is planning domestic spying on a level previously only imagined: recording every car driving on Britain’s roads. Extensive camera surveillance has been common on the nation’s highways for years, but now the network will be expanded with the intention of recording some 50 million license plates a day and storing the date, time, and place in computers for two years. In regional tests the program has increased crime solving by a factor of ten, and authorities intend to use the system to combat crime and terrorism. Many Britons believe it will be more useful for catching speeders and other traffic scofflaws to increase revenue.
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