Sunday, January 22, 2006
Big Brother on Steroids
Took the long way home, did you? Yikes...
From The Register in the U.K.:
"The control centre is intended to go live in April of next year, and is intended to be processing 50 million number plates a day by year end. ACPO national ANPR co-ordinator John Dean told the Sunday Times that fixed ANPR cameras already exist 'at strategic points' on every motorway in the UK, and that the intention was to have 'good nationwide coverage within the next 12 months.'"
"According to ACPO roads policing head Meredydd Hughes, ANPR systems are planned every 400 yards along motorways, and a trial on the M42 near Birmingham will first be used to enforce variable speed limits, then to 'tackle more serious crime.'"
