Oh here we go...
A "Big Brother" plan to automatically hand the police details of the daily journeys of millions of motorists tracked by road pricing cameras across the country were inadvertently disclosed by the Home Office last night.
Leaked Whitehall papers reveal that Home Office and transport ministers have clashed over plans for legislation this autumn enabling the police to get automatic "real-time" access to the bulk data from the traffic cameras now going into operation.
The Home Office says the police need the data from the cameras, which can read and store every passing numberplate, "for all crime fighting purposes".
The police "need the data"?
Who says?
Oh, yeah. THE POLICE.
I believe the police have already been granted enough "new powers" under this authoritarian government without the need to give them yet more.
Is there to be no such thing as privacy any more then?
Are we to see the creeping sureveillance of the State intrude into every nook and cranny of our lives all under the bogus catch-all of The War Against Terrrr?
Bollocks.
