The government is considering plans to allow police permanent access to data from traffic cameras to track the movement of cars. The Big Brother plans emerged after Home Office Minister Tony McNulty announced that real-time data from London's 1,500 congestion charge cameras would be given to Scotland Yard under a temporary lifting of data protection rules. Under current arrangements, the Metropolitan Police have to ask for data from the number-plate reading cameras on a case-by-case basis.
Background notes inadvertently attached to McNulty's statement on Tuesday revealed Home Office plans to make the exemption from data protection plans permanent and to extend it across the country.
I HOPE THEY GET IT THROUGH - I am very happy to be monitored all day every day in order to help deter and catch criminals. I back use of CCTV all the way. The idiots who campaign against it are living in another century
Background notes inadvertently attached to McNulty's statement on Tuesday revealed Home Office plans to make the exemption from data protection plans permanent and to extend it across the country.
I HOPE THEY GET IT THROUGH - I am very happy to be monitored all day every day in order to help deter and catch criminals. I back use of CCTV all the way. The idiots who campaign against it are living in another century
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I would like to see greater expansion of CCTV, especially in places where anti-social behaviour is rife.