The European Union has some prety strict privacy laws. One look at the U.K. will convince you it's not all so dandy across the pond. There are only just fourteen people per CCTV surveillance camera in the UK. These 4.2 million surveillance cameras monitor things such as roadways, city centres, and so forth to keep the peace. (snuff films? ugh...). I won't go into their questionable legality - you can read all about that here.
Today's buzz is regarding CCTVs that watch the motorways automatically scanning license plates as cars drive by. This technology lets the police automatically identify the owner of any vehicle, in real time, and log its location. But the cameras are just for crimes, not to track everything you do right?
Wrong. The cameras are ready and set to record every vehicle's whereabouts in The Database. Just in case you and/your car commit a crime, there will be a log of where your car was. In The Database. For Five Years.
They drive on the wrong side over there anyway, so who cares? ;-)
Source: The Guardian via Jalopnik.
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