| Re: Fears over privacy as police expand surveillance project. |
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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: AboAbo Date: Sep 15, 2008 05:15
Gizmo. wrote:
>> Gizmo. wrote:
>>> "Doug" riseup.net> wrote in message
>>> news:d706edc5-5e37-4fc5-84d0-3c873d7152c8@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
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>>> Welcome to TrafficMaster ... which has been doing what you describe for
>>> many years.
>>> Fuckwit !!>> Trafficmaster drops some of the characters though (so they say...). And
>> it's not on all roads.
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>> Hmm, I wonder if the government sponsored scheme will cover the smaller
>> roads or just use the traffic master gear? It might be possible to get
>> about 'off the grid' still. Hmm, I can see a market for satnav with an
>> 'avoid monitored road' option lol
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> Last I heard - Trafficmaster only reads 4 characters from the number plate,
> then times the vehicle to the next camera. A simple time / distance
> equations gives the average speed of the flow of traffic.
> I'm guessing the system could be easily modified to read the entire plate
> ... but would Trafficmaster want to do that, and pass the information onto
> Plod. Seems like commercial suicide to me.
The system would only need to be modifed to not delete the characters it
already drops. Then just store that data for five years and it's a big
part of the job done for Big Brother.
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Abo
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