Big Brother is Green
Feb 4th, 2008 by Jason
Another leap forward for surveillance society as the number plate recognition scanners record all vehicles in an out of London, for the sake of our health you understand. How could you refuse?
But Transport for London, which is implementing the zone, says it will improve quality of life for people with asthma, cardio-vascular disease and other health conditions.
The signs above have been appearing around London for a while and there has been no explanation until now.
Where the old congestion charging zone was only in the city centre and active between 07.00 - 18.00 Monday to Friday, the LEZ covers all of London, in some cases further out than the M25 and is active 24 hours a day.
ALL vehicles entering the low emission zone will have their number plates scanned and compared to a database which will check to see if your vehicle is a polluter (and in which case, have you paid!)Now, just sit back and wait for some kind of terrorist event which will allow the government to start using this technology for overt monitoring and control of all vehicle movements. Unlike in East Germany, there are no checkpoints where you are asked “vare are your papaz?” There are no papers.
Not feeling paranoid enough yet? Have a read of The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks.
paranoid much Jason haha.
More cctv cameras are going up all the (for our safety). It truely is turning in to a big brother state with every square inch of the street covered.
I wonder if they can see me through my webcam??
Have you seen all the cameras in trains and buses within London! Who is watching them all - can’t be people any more than Google uses people to manually add sites to their index.
They keep announcing on the train:
“Closed Circuit television cameras are in use for your safety”
Feck, am I in danger!
Alternating with:
“Please report all suspicious packages.”
Jeez, there are suspicious packages to watch out for too!
I’m too frightened to leave my house. Best turn on the telly and learn what I have to do ;p
I feel from some recent cases of criminals being caught via the use of CCTV that it does have a place in our lives, but I do feel it leaves an Insidious feeling of the big brother factor infecting our everyday lives. It is typical of all government that the few bad eggs who become media news become the reason for more control and surveliance of all us innocent people. I think it has been a contributing factor in reducing crime, but lets be honest crime is never as bad as the newspapers pretend. Good news ‘don’t sell papers”.