--- gazz <pmg@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
Apropos an earlier debate on the http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ website and the current headbang over the hi-tec Orwellian/eco-friendly (depending on your point of view) road tracking scheme:
Air people didn't get into the debate directly - at least not with mysociety.com and Tom Steinberg.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/12/road_pricing_petition_response/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,2015173,00.html
The Register's correspondence on the topic is also amusing . . .
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/14/letters_1302/
By the way, your Oyster card already 'phones home' with every move you make on public transport and I don't recall much public excitement about that: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3121652.stm
Neither for Oyster nor for that matter the London Congestion Charge database (or for that matter the others that are being linked like driver vehicle licensing, vehicle taxation, testing, insurance .... ) was it explicitly or publicly debated that 'you' could be tracked by the record of your individual journeys on the bus and Underground network. And as yet Oyster isn't directly feeding information into the middle of central national government, linked to the putative ID National databases etc. Information is available to the (local) police - maybe also to the political police (aka Special Branch), and intelligence and counter-intelligence, Revenue and Customs, and indirectly the brothers. Dominic Pinto BA MIEEE MCMI MRi FRSA http://www.ecademy.com/user/dominicpinto e-m: dominic.pinto@ieee.org M: +44 780 302-8268 Ph: +44 207 379-8341 In the U.S. M/Cell: +1 215 667-3001