You *are* being watched...
in [UK Drivers]
|
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 11:02 On 24/03/2010 10:21, Ret. wrote: > Determining where vehicles are coming from and going to is immensely > useful if you are looking at improving local roads infrastructure. That is done around here by having people sat on fold up chairs at several junctions along a stretch of road counting the number and type of vehicle. > Little point in building a new road from A to B if the traffic on the > over-congested road is only using it briefly to get from C to D. Why not? Its still congested. > If you are driving a truck then who you work for may well enable them to > deduce the likely traffic movements from your depot along that road. That is none of their business and a traffic survey as I described would still suffice. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 11:04 On 24/03/2010 10:58, Bod wrote: >> >> ANPR is bringing massive benefits to crime fighting and traffic offence >> detecting and *that* is what we should be concentrating on - not >> imaginary and fanciful downsides. >> How does it bring a benefit to crime fighting? You've just told us that information stored is useless and that nobody looks at it. It doesn't detect any traffic offences other than POTENTIAL Insurance, MOT or VED offences. Hell, its even so shite at the VED one that the gubbermint brought out a 5 day get out of jail period. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 11:05 On 24/03/2010 10:58, Ret. wrote: > ANPR is proving an immensely successful crime fighting tool. So what offences, other than driving without insurance, MOT or VED does it detect? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 11:08 On 24/03/2010 11:01, Ret. wrote: > Yes, yes, yes. But is anyone going to look at all that data to determine > that you, or me, or Cynic, or whoever, went to Tescos last Thursday? > They might if an incident occurred there, but the overwhelming chance is > that no-one will ever look at 99.9% of the collected data because, in > itself, it is of no use or interest to anyone that you or I or Cynic > went to Tescos last Thursday. > So you're actually saying that the whole exercise is completely pointless and the �100millions spent on these databases are a waste of money and that we should just shut them down? The government seem to think they're useful. The ACPO seem to think they're useful. I wonder why... -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Conor on 24 Mar 2010 11:13
On 24/03/2010 14:55, Conor wrote: > How about this? Actual true incident. > > 17 year old neice was in a car driven by her 20 year old boyfriend. Also > in the car was my 12 year old nephew who has Muscular Dystrophy. > > Boyfriend overtakes a bus crawling along in a village, without exceeding > the speed limit and gets tugged by plod who see him as a young driver > and an easy target. They tell him that overtaking a slow moving vehicle > in an urban area is illegal - first I've ever heard - and as he's young, > he believes them. > > THE VERY NEXT MORNING, social services are round at my sister in laws > saying that they had concerns about my disabled nephew being carried in > a car that was stopped by the police. > > When did this occur? Last week. And you wonder why we all have the > concerns about the gubbermint, Kev. > Just to add, Kev... How did Social Services find out about this incident? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |