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Yes, yes, I know, you told me so :)
Nov. 15th, 2005 11:13 amhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4436232.stm
*waits for colleague to return with bacon and egg rolls*
*waits for colleague to return with bacon and egg rolls*
Nov. 15th, 2005
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/15/vehicle_movement_database/
"A '24x7 national vehicle movement database' that logs everything on the UK's roads and retains the data for at least two years is now being built, according to an Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) strategy document leaked to the Sunday Times."
This is getting way beyond a joke. Not to mention the general invasion of privacy the article is focussing on, there's also this line:
"The new offence of keeping a vehicle without insurance criminalises the previously harmless pastime of keeping an uninsured vehicle in a garage and not driving it". What kind of crime is that exactly? Who is the victim?? Fucking hell.
Oh, and while we're on the general subject of our not-a-police-state-honest, this from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nullstr:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4438060.stm
"A '24x7 national vehicle movement database' that logs everything on the UK's roads and retains the data for at least two years is now being built, according to an Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) strategy document leaked to the Sunday Times."
This is getting way beyond a joke. Not to mention the general invasion of privacy the article is focussing on, there's also this line:
"The new offence of keeping a vehicle without insurance criminalises the previously harmless pastime of keeping an uninsured vehicle in a garage and not driving it". What kind of crime is that exactly? Who is the victim?? Fucking hell.
Oh, and while we're on the general subject of our not-a-police-state-honest, this from
nullstr:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4438060.stm
