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Posted by Volker Birk on January 17, 2006, 4:22 am
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> A UK consumer watchdog has called for new laws to protect users' rights to
> use digital music and movies. The National Consumer Council (NCC) said
> anti-piracy efforts were eroding established rights to digital media.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4617176.stm
> About time...
Yes.
But the people in UK are losing anyway now. After I read the last
Cryptogram, I'm wondering, why there is no revolution there yet:
| Universal automobile surveillance is coming. According to "The
| Independent":
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| "Britain is to become the first country in the world where the
| movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national
| surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.
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| "Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing
| number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements
| so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a
| driver has made over several years.
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| "The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which
| are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day
| to provide 24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as
| towns, cities, ports and petrol-station forecourts.
|
| "By next March a central database installed alongside the Police
| National Computer in Hendon, north London, will store the details of 35
| million number-plate "reads" per day. These will include time, date and
| precise location, with camera sites monitored by global positioning
| satellites. "
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| "The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys, which
| has taken more than 25 years to develop, is only the beginning of plans
| to monitor the movements of all British citizens. The Home Office
| Scientific Development Branch in Hertfordshire is already working on
| ways of automatically recognising human faces by computer, which many
| people would see as truly introducing the prospect of Orwellian street
| surveillance, where our every move is recorded and stored by machines.
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece>
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article334684.ece>
<http://www.schneier.com/essay-061.html>
<http://www.schneier.com/essay-057.html>
Welcome to 1984, UK!
Yours,
VB.
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