Flutterby™! : Big Brother meets Big Ben

When Nancy forwarded me the news about Britain's planned vehicle movement tracking system, that would track the movements of every automobile and truck in that country and hold the data for two years, she did not say "Holy fuck, is that ripe for abuse or what?", so I'll say it. Yow, I guess when you've been softened up by years of IRA violence you'll submit to anything, but I hope that we here in the U.S. are smarter than this. Really I do.

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.

Wow. So what is a country that's headed the right direction in terms of government control and civil liberties?

[Title is courtesy of Nancy, too]