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--- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:18:26 -0500 From: Simon Spero <ses@unc.edu> To: declan@well.com Subject: [For FC]: Sky spy could make drivers pay UK transport Czar wants to track every motorist with gps black box. The stated reason is to implement congestion pricing, and if you believe that, there's I've got a steel company in Romania I'd like to sell you. The story doesn't give any technical details, but I can only thing of one legititmate way of implementing road pricing like this- tamper-proof black box calculating charges in real time and recording only the total charge, not the location. Reason why this is a bad idea: no such thing as tamper-proof. Simon http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020224/80/csvob.html Sky spy could make drivers pay By Mike Peacock LONDON (Reuters) - Motorists could be charged for using busy roads with satellites monitoring their every move under plans to be announced by the government's "transport czar" on Monday. The proposals by Professor David Begg, chairman of the government-sponsored Commission for Integrated Transport, will include plans to fit cars with a black box which would be tracked by global positioning satellites (GPS). [....] --- From: "John Cieciel" <uselesseater@msn.com> To: "dec" <declan@well.com> Subject: Daily Telegraph: Police fears on push for DNA bank [24feb02] Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:28:05 -0600 Oz Police 'fear' DNA Data Bank Misuse <http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3832296%255E421,00.html>http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,3832296%255E421,00.html J. Cieciel --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------