[Nottingham] Is it theft to be live alive? (Was: Media Centre Linux distro?)

[Martin]

On 10/05/12 10:09, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Martin wrote:
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> all. With TV licensing there's the assumption that a household must be
> using a TV but with ANPR it's spotting someone that is actually on the
> road when they shouldn't be.
> 
> Also it's easy to buy insurance just to cover the point where you buy
> tax (once a year maybe). A realtime check is a far better way to
> verify that road users are legitimately insured.

That is fine if that is /only/ what ANR was being used for...

There's also other ways available for chasing tax/MOT/insurance that
doesn't need ANR tracking /everyone/ /always/ ...

As with the crude example of "The State" using a hammer to make
/everyone/ behave like nails...


>> For just one small example: Would such surveillance by teaching staff be
>> justified for tracking down truants from school?... Or even just for
>> pupils arriving late?...
> 
> Absolutely! I get a text message from the school if my kids are late.
> What kind of crazy world are we living in if libertarians are standing
> up for the rights of kids to wander in and out of school with
> impunity?

That's good and highly efficient of the school.

So that /should/ be a case of "pupil not in class so contact parents".
That doesn't need the intimate surveillance of /everyone/ ... And
especially not available to be accessed by all "education staff" ...


What celeb was it that was admitted to a Liverpool hospital A&E to then
have a *few hundred* accesses to their medical files recorded that day?...

All in the UK...
Martin


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