WTFFF?

[denny]

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 nullstr:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4438060.stm

Comments

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

I think MOT is computerised from some time next year...

[naranek.livejournal.com]

True, though I suspect that post offices won't be able to check against it for a while longer. The online system should let me avoid the post-office hassle, though, hopefully...

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

I would happily continue to cue once a year in the post office - when MOT system goes computerised I doubt I will be able to get the "friendly" MOT my aging chariot needs to stay on the road.
- I doubt I will be the only one either.