Where will all the freedom loving Brits move to?

Big Brother-style surveillance is growing on Britain’s roads, where police will have the greatest ability in the world to scrutinise, control and record the movements of drivers by the end of the year.
Thousands of cameras reading vehicle number plates and comparing data with a central data base will analyse some 35 million pieces of information per day.
The data will be transmitted to the police and also MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, to help in the hunt for suspected criminals or terrorists. It will be kept for two years, but the period may be extended to five years.
Prime Minister Tony Blair’s centre-left government has invested some 15 million pounds (27 million dollars, 22 million euros) in the project this year.
“The plan is to deny criminals the use of the road,” said retired police officer John Dean, who is coordinating the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) programme.
“We will combine our efforts in a national network which, we hope, will be active from May,” Dean told AFP.
The entire country will be hooked up to the ANPR system between now and the end of 2006.
The network of cameras will automatically alert the authorities when it finds a car listed as stolen, with an out-of-date tax disk or a vehicle that is not insured.
The system also raises the alarm if it recognises there is an arrest warrant out for the driver of a vehicle. And it can be used simply to track the movement of a certain person who is of police interest.

You shouldn’t feel all that secure in the US either. Surely you’ve noticed the increasing numbers of cams at intersections in your community…well, maybe only in larger cities. Once installed it is a relatively simple step to interface the imagery to a system similar to what the British are using.

Via Lew Rockwell.