From: GeoffC on
Ret. wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>> Ret. wrote:
>>
>> Being 'watched' in real-time isn't the fear. Having your recorded
>> movements retrieved and analysed later, is.
>
> And why would that worry you? If someone wants to know that I go to
> Tescos every couple of weeks, then good luck to them.
>

So one day a letter arrives in the post:

Dear Ret
Last Thursday a woman was attacked and raped in the Tesco's car park. Our
data records (GSM and ANPR) show that you were present at the time of the
attack. Perhaps you would be so kind as to drop into the local nick and
provide a DNA sample, just to eliminate you from our inquiries .

Still not worried?

--

Geoff


From: Rob on
Ret. wrote:
|| Theodore wrote:
||| On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:36:35 +0000, Phil Stovell
||| <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> wrote:
|||
|||| On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:01:47 +0000, Ret. wrote:
||||
||||| As I have mentioned in another post - the vast number of 'reads'
||||| per day means that it would be impossible to record the movements
||||| of 'all' vehicles - and why would they want to waste time and
||||| resources in doing so? The only vehicles that are tracked are
||||| those recorded as 'hits' - ie, those vehicles that are 'tagged'
||||| as being of police interest.
||||
|||| I could quite easily write a program that traced, as far as
|||| possible, every car number that appeared on every camera. Get me
|||| the data, and I'll do it! Sort all the data sets into ascending
|||| registration number and date/time of photographing and location -
|||| I expect you can see what I mean.
|||
||| Absolutely! The information is invaluable! Christ I can't believe
||| the naivety and technical ignorance of some of the posts here.
||
|| Explain how the information is invaluable - and explain how millions
|| of vehicle movements can be scrutinised individually.

Why do you think they would need to be scrutinised individually - do you
think that's what's done with the millions of phone calls people make?



--
Rob


From: Ret. on
GeoffC wrote:
> Ret. wrote:
>> Rob wrote:
>>> Ret. wrote:
>>>
>>> Being 'watched' in real-time isn't the fear. Having your recorded
>>> movements retrieved and analysed later, is.
>>
>> And why would that worry you? If someone wants to know that I go to
>> Tescos every couple of weeks, then good luck to them.
>>
>
> So one day a letter arrives in the post:
>
> Dear Ret
> Last Thursday a woman was attacked and raped in the Tesco's car park.
> Our data records (GSM and ANPR) show that you were present at the
> time of the attack. Perhaps you would be so kind as to drop into the
> local nick and provide a DNA sample, just to eliminate you from our
> inquiries .
> Still not worried?

Absolutely not. Why should I be? Like most honest and upright citizens I
would be only too happy to assist the police with their enquiries.

Kev

From: Paul on
GeoffC wrote:
> Ret. wrote:
>> Rob wrote:
>>> Ret. wrote:
>>>
>>> Being 'watched' in real-time isn't the fear. Having your recorded
>>> movements retrieved and analysed later, is.
>> And why would that worry you? If someone wants to know that I go to
>> Tescos every couple of weeks, then good luck to them.
>>
>
> So one day a letter arrives in the post:
>
> Dear Ret
> Last Thursday a woman was attacked and raped in the Tesco's car park. Our
> data records (GSM and ANPR) show that you were present at the time of the
> attack. Perhaps you would be so kind as to drop into the local nick and
> provide a DNA sample, just to eliminate you from our inquiries .
>
> Still not worried?
>
Only if you did it....
From: Adrian on
Mike Ross <mike(a)corestore.org> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

>>And this could only be the start - 40 sites have been identified with a
>>scope for 170+ cameras/readers across the region, including Manchester."

> Someone should tell the buggers that '1984' was a WARNING not an
> INSTRUCTION MANUAL.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/
images/4/2010/03/500x_for_traffic_cameras.jpg

http://leonardoanceschi.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/mini.jpg?w=500&h=180

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png