The only thing Orwell got wrong...

... was the year (via Chris at Strange Stuff):

Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.

Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.

I am getting thoroughly fucking sick to the back teeth of this Government's inscessant prying into our private lives, all in the name of terrorism.

The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to provide 24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as towns, cities, ports and petrol-station forecourts.

By next March a central database installed alongside the Police National Computer in Hendon, north London, will store the details of 35 million number-plate "reads" per day. These will include time, date and precise location, with camera sites monitored by global positioning satellites.

This is not an April Fool's joke. These bastards want to know everything about you. ID Cards, Satellite Tracking Devices in your car, recording all the details of your home including pictures of the interior.

Where will it all end? It is sometimes hard to find Christmas cheer amongst all this shit.

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