Met and TFL get ANPR and excempt from DPA
Date: 17 July 2007 Transport for London and the Met Police not only use ANPR but are now exempt from certain parts of the Data Protection act, after the Home Secretary (Jacqui Smith as the time),...
View ArticleMore companies profit from ANPR
While the hardware industry of CCTV recording, and the software industry of reading the images collected by CCTV, have been working with the goverment for a long time on ANPR, new group of software...
View ArticleNational ANPR Stratergy
These are are some highlights on the ANPR Strategy 2005 to 2008 from ACPO, the full report is at the bottom of this post. ANPR was designed/restricted for terrorsim, but will now be used for everything...
View Article600,000 Cars Tracked a Day in Manchester via ANPR
GMP combines wireless CCTV and ANPR to collect more data A supplier to the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) recently announcing that it’s now “virtually impossible to drive a car into the centre [of...
View ArticleSteal a Number Plate Avoid ANPR
ANPR was invented to ‘combat terrorism’ but is now used to enforce the most minor of road traffic offenses; the whole system is 100% reliant on the number plate being the correct. The question of “why...
View ArticlePlans to chip all cars?
The UK-based vehicle licence plate manufacturer, Hills Numberplates Ltd, has chosen long-range RFID tags and readers from Identec Solutions to be embedded in licence plates that will automatically and...
View ArticleElectronic Number Plates
DVLA is currently trialling/testing the use of Electronic Number Plates within the UK. These tests are starting because the UK law has been adapted to allow for the electronic tags of all cars in the...
View ArticleRFID used for Tracking
More and more companies are working on technology that is designed to use RFID chips for tracking people and vehicles, sometimes referred to as “assets”. The UK Government, along with DVLA and IBM are...
View ArticleWider Deployment of ANPR 2004 to 2009
In 2003 Science Policy Unit produced a report for the “”Police Science and Technology Strategy” with a five year plan from 2004 to 2009. Part of the plan was a significant increase in ANPR, the report...
View ArticleNew Home for Where is My Data
This site has now been incorporated to the site Where is Your Data? This blog will still remain here, but lectures, quizzes, tests, and and news will be put on the parent site.
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