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Originally Posted by MiniMatt
I agree completely Northwind - I'm against it because (a) I'm worried about the privacy issues that I fear will likely arise shortly after the implementation, and (b) because I don't believe that any of the schemes suggested are either fair or effective.
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I am honestly not so sure that this will happen. We already have things like the Data Protection Act to minimise privacy issues etc (so long as people know the Act that is). Of course, there is always the "national security & crime prevention" answer from the government, but they need to be very careful not to break the law by implimenting this system.
If they do, given that we're still in the EU, the EU could indeed prove itself useful to us & force the british government to scrap whatever it's put in place.
The idea of numberplate tracking I don't like, but that's because the ways to circumvent GPS tracking are p*ss easy! I don't fear GPS tracking because I know I can disable it, I am concerned about tracking numberplates for verification against a transmitting GPS signal though (purely because that's harder to get around).
By all means, fight this on a double taxation standpoint. Fuel duty plus road tax plus road pricing, or on the fairness aspect, but leave the privacy debate out of this, it damages the argument.
How many times have people complained about privacy only for the government only to go ahead anyway. Maybe a different angle is needed.