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National Automatic Number Plate Recognition Database data retention function creep

Posted by Glyn in Automatic Vehicle Tracking, Data Protection, Data Retention, Privacy at September 15th, 2008

Be very clear, this is not ANPR data regarding criminals or people who are actually being watched, or watched out for, as part of a narrowly targeted criminal or intelligence agency investigation, this is vehicle movement data of the vast majority of millions of innocent motorists
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This has been touted as the largest Oracle database system in Europe.

Source: Spy Blog

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Fears over privacy as police expand ANPR surveillance

Posted by Glyn in Automatic Vehicle Tracking, Data Protection, Data Retention, Privacy at September 15th, 2008

A national network of roadside cameras will be able to “read” 50m licence plates a day, enabling officers to reconstruct the journeys of motorists…. The project relies on automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras to pinpoint the precise time and location of all vehicles on the road. Senior officers had promised the data would be stored for two years. But responding to inquiries under the Freedom of Information Act, the Home Office has admitted the data is now being kept for five years.

Source: The Guardian

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