Alistair Darling's spin machine seems to have flooded most of the Sunday broadsheets and the TV news with his dubious satellite tracking road toll / mass surveillance plan, which surfaced last year.
Spy Blog has more about some of the obvious security, privacy and technology issues which have not been mentioned by the media, who are concentrating on blithely assuming that the technology even exists to cover the whole of the UK road network, and covering the story soley from the aspect of transport costs and environmental impact, ignoring the inevitable intrusive mass surveillance potential of the scheme.
"Yet again a NuLabour Minister is grasping at unproven technology as a magic fix for social problems.""Where are the privacy safeguards with this plan ? Where is the consultation with the people ? Where are the alternative plans and solutions to traffic congestion ?"
Since this project is likely to span several Parliaments, we will certainly be keeping a watch out to see if Alistair Darling or any other Ministers or civil servants or NuLabour political commissars and advisors, end up lobbying the Ministry of Transport for a slice of the multi-billion pound contracts that this plan would involve.
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