The British government plans to test RFID-embedded license plates, developed by Hills Numberplates. Such e-plates might be read by any strategically placed reader along a road at speeds of up to 300km/h and up to 100 metres away.
Applications include speed traps, detecting stolen vehicles, and traffic management. Network security firm McAfee reckons that the technology also lends itself to its use as a surveillance tool by governments or criminal exploitation.
This is hilarious! It professes to have "No Civil Liberties Issues". It is a Civil Liberties Issue! Is this going to happen, or is there a possibility that the citizenry of the UK will wake up and smell the coffee on this one?
ReplyDeleteI am not a criminal, nor involved in "crime" of any sort but will this device trigger a response from some obscure database of parking tickets I might have gotten in college thirty years ago? Will I then be a criminal involved in "crime? That would amply justify the implementation of such a grand system. We should do it. NOT.