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UK - EU: Guardian article - Big Brother is watching: surveillance box to track drivers is backed

01 March 2009

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Big Brother is watching: surveillance box to track drivers is backed (Guardian, link). Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

"The CVIS project is one of dozens of EU funded projects which are exploring the boundaries of what is technologically possible. What is needed in tamden is a public debate on their political and ethical implications. The ever present danger is that multinationals develop and invest in projects in virtual secrecy and only start to consider the implications for privacy and liberties as an afterthought, when it is too late to change direction. Technology can improve peoples' lives but only if it is tempered by open and informed decision-making and they are free to use it or not."

and see: Council of the European Union Conclusions on: Action Plan for the Deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in Europe (Press release, pdf)

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