Surveillance Britain

The Labour fetish for watching and recording every move we make whether in real life or on-line is well documented, but here are some more examples just from today's news.

1) The Mail reports that:

"The police and MI5 have been given access to a network of infrared cameras that can track millions of car journeys across Britain.

The 1,090 cameras read numberplates of cars on all motorways and major trunk roads, recording the time, date and location of the vehicle and storing the data for five years.

The Highways Agency installed the bright green cameras to calculate journey times. But last week a senior agency official confirmed they are being linked to a police database. "

This is a typical Labour surveillance story; the cameras were installed by one government agency for one purpose but are to be used by other arms of government for surveillance.


2) WorldNet Daily report that there are plans in America to put RFID chips in driving licences. I predict that this most anti-freedom Labour UK government will follow suit and then just imagine how useful it would be for the police to walk around or through a demonstration with a RFID reader in a rucksack and know exactly who was at the demonstration. I wonder how many databases could be populated with such data and how many flagged warnings would be raised by three "demonstrators" turning up at Heathrow airport together.


I do not want to be under 24/7 surveillance, I am not a criminal.