Maybe I've been unobservant in the past and this is usual practice, but on the pump at my local supermarket yesterday there was a sign saying that my number plate was being scannned by an ANPR camera. Is that usual? What if my number plate was illegal (it isn't!)? Who gets the info? Who acts upon it? Do they keep the info? Or if I am legal and I pay for my fuel do they delete the info? Is it legal for Tescoburys to record my plate like this?
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It's "probably" buried in their Data Protection Statement (Searchable on Information Commissioner's website).
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It's 'posh' talk for CCTV. They certainly don't have access to the PNC or MIDAS.
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There is some system run by a third party security firm, which flags up number plates related to previous drive-offs at other stations, and probably stolen car numbers (but I'm only guessing that bit). It has been in operation at sites which pay for it for at least 4 years that I know of.
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It's 'posh' talk for CCTV
It is "posh" CCTV, something like this www.rednaus.com/ANPR.html
As for PhilW's concerns re. privacy, see this 2004/2005 report
www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/2005/04/sainsburys_petrol_s...l
Sainsburys? bogus "Big Brother"
© 2005 Manfred Roxon
Sainsburys is to take down bogus "police" warnings from its petrol stations all over the country ? because they?re untrue. Bold yellow warnings tell drivers that Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras "linked to the police" have recorded their car?s number to foil non-payers. The ANPR warning signs imply the police and security services scan every car that drives in, enabling them to track people (not cars) for a variety of reasons. Sainsburys also now admits there may be no cameras at all, only scary warnings. As the company?s Civil Rights Officer, Jillian Hardwick concedes, "No Sainsbury's ANPR systems are linked directly to the police. In some stores we have notices up as a deterrent but do not actually use the scheme."
etc.etc.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras check number plate images against a privately operated computer blacklist. A buzzer sounds if potential non-payers, known as 'drive-outs' or bilkers appear. Sainsburys wants eighty ANPR stations by the end of the year and eventually plans to have them all on-line.
etc. etc. etc.
Also, see December 2005 report
news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686....e
The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to provide 24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as towns, cities, ports and petrol-station forecourts.
By next March a central database installed alongside the Police National Computer in Hendon, north London, will store the details of 35 million number-plate "reads" per day. These will include time, date and precise location, with camera sites monitored by global positioning satellites.
Already there are plans to extend the database by increasing the storage period to five years and by linking thousands of additional cameras so that details of up to 100 million number plates can be fed each day into the central databank.
Edited by jbif on 13/01/2008 at 19:57
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In these days of postal policing I'm surprised it's not mandatory for all filling stations to have ANPR cameras.All the stolen and flagged up cars,and people with no tax insurance or mot could be tracked and /or apprehended./sent penalty notices.Even stolen cars need fuel.Or is this too much like common sense.Perhaps the police don't have the recources?
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How many people had their private data scattered to the four corners of Britain when those infamous CD's went missing before Christmas ?
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In the event of a drive-off, the CCTV locally is scanned by a PC, to follow up the theft. SFAIK, they are only interested in the crook. Haven't got time to be bothered about Joe Soap!
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"they are only interested in the crook. Haven't got time to be bothered about Joe Soap!"
- unless you are somebody the government doesn't like such as the Hatfield train crash surviviors, or the heterosexual Christians who complained about children vandalising a playground.
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Indeed Hamsafar.....
Hunt support
Fuel protestor
Supporter of opposing political party
Someone who campaigns against Congestion charging
The list is endless
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Are you sure you are allowed out yet hamsafar? Your coded message eludes me...
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