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>Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:05:05 -0700 (PDT) >From: "G. Gruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Clips] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Police use cameras to track >vehicles of suspects] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Heh, heh, heh.....more'n one way to skin a radar camera... ><http://www.phantomplate.com/photoblocker.html>http://www.phantomplate.com/photoblocker.html > >Apparently works. There's measured outrage against it. > >ffurgy_|_gruffy, reporting from the Mad Hatter's Flash-Block Seminar > > >"R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >--- begin forwarded text > > >Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:59:51 +0200 >From: Eugen Leitl >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Police use cameras to track vehicles of >suspects] >User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >----- Forwarded message from David Farber ----- > >From: David Farber >Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 11:49:17 -0400 >To: Ip ip >Subject: [IP] Police use cameras to track vehicles of suspects >X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Begin forwarded message: > >From: Bruce Schneier >Date: July 20, 2005 11:04:17 AM EDT >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [EPIC_IDOF] Police use cameras to track vehicles of suspects > > >I've written about this in New Haven, CT: > >http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/10/license_plate_g.html > >This new story is from Scotland. > >Bruce > >**************************** > >Police use cameras to track vehicles of suspects > >http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/43417.html > >LUCY ADAMS, Home Affairs Correspondent July 20 2005 > > >POLICE have created a database of more than 6000 vehicles of suspects >which they can track on special cameras as they move around the country. > >On major roads across Scotland, the cameras, which look similar to >the speed ones, record thousands of licence plates every hour and >scan them against the database. > >Those on the list are flagged up with the local force control room >with details of the direction in which they are travelling. Depending >on the intelligence held on the motorist, the vehicle could be >stopped immediately by officers or monitored during its journey. > >Senior police say there are a "substantial number" of cameras across >the country aimed at detecting drugs traffickers, sex offenders, >suspected terrorists and banned or unlicensed drivers. Owners on the >list are not told, and civil rights campaigners have raised concerns >about whether the scheme is compatible with human rights legislation. > >However, officers say Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), >originally created for counter-terrorism, is a vital tool in >collecting intelligence on criminals and suspected terrorists. > >Alan Burnett, spokesman on the system for the Association of Chief >Police Officers in Scotland, and assistant chief constable of Fife, >said: "It is directed against detecting travelling housebreakers, >potential terrorists, bogus callers and drug traffickers. This >technology is very much geared towards disrupting criminals such as >drug traffickers and it is not about prosecuting the motorist." > >He said it was nothing to do with speeding or Big Brother, adding >that there were various lengths of time over which they could hold >the information: "A stolen vehicle may be on the list for two days, >but more serious intelligence may be kept on the list for up to 90 >days." > >The Scottish Executive has spent ?1.5m on ANPR machines which can >check up to 3000 licence plates an hour on vehicles travelling at >speeds of up to 100mph. Forces are planning to connect this database >to the Scottish Intelligence Database (SID) to allow every officer to >be able to request that a vehicle of interest should be checked. > >It is managed by the Scottish Criminal Records Office where a >sergeant is responsible for checking the information is held only for >a certain time and that it is compliant with human rights legislation. > >John Scott, head of the Scottish Human Rights Centre, said he was >concerned about the lack of judicial scrutiny. > >_______________________________________________ >EPIC_IDOF mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://mailman.epic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/epic_idof > > >------------------------------------- >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To manage your subscription, go to >http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip > >Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ > >----- End forwarded message ----- >-- >Eugen* Leitl <http://leitl.org/>leitl >______________________________________________________________ >ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org >8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > >[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature >which had a name of signature.asc] > >--- end forwarded text > > >-- >----------------- >R. A. Hettinga >The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation >44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA >"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, >[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to >experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' >_______________________________________________ >Clips mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips > > > >Gruffy: JPFO, Semper Fi to the Bill of Rights (RIP) Molon Labe! Let's >dance! Alaska Historical Society, Hope Historical Society -Headed for >Alaska? 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