Re: "they will only be turned on when officers are in the area"
Auto turn off when they recognise pink elephants flying overhead otherwise will 'accidentally' be left on.
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My limited research indicates that the matter has not been voted on in Parliament, indeed there appears to be no legislative process for control or oversight of facial recognition cameras. The police are rushing ahead to try to set a precedent before Parliament, or at least the bit that is concerned with freedoms, wakes up.
Didn't News Corp, along with others, 'lobby' (an near acceptable term for handing cash over) the Australian Government to make the likes of Google pay a surcharge to the media outlets for the summaries of the News pages they put in search results.
Currently (in the UK at least) you are now faced with a Pay Us Money or accept personalised adverts flash box from the MSM newspapers which means I no longer read any of their twaddle !!
I think that it was Australia who first enacted the TCN concepts into law - some years ago.
What has Apple done in AUS?
Given that we have only heard of this TCN by the substifuge of Apple removing a product - is it now reasonable to accept that others (WhatsApp etc.) have already received such notices and have complied?
It needs some smart guys to unravel the recent SW updates on those platforms to see what has been sneaked in while we aren't looking.
I was under the impression that it was Australia that came up with the 'cunning plan' to make it illegal to disclose the back door order in their equivalent legislation.
Similarly Australia has a similar law in place on disclosing the list of banned/block websites that ISPs have to restrict access to - I'm not aware that the UK has copied that particular bit of censorship - yet!
Trouble is that the newer messaging services are end to end encrypted, so the government cannot snoop unless they have access to at least the hardware at one end of the link.
The new requirement appears to be asking for a backdoor in the middle so that everyone can be snooped on at will, without oversight. Much as they want for Bank Accounts.
As Apple have been asked it's a dead cert. that Google/Meta/Facebook/TikTok et'all will also have been served but are being 'good' and not telling us.
"Microsoft now prohibits "any real-time facial recognition … on mobile cameras used by any law enforcement globally." "
Compliance by UK police will be about as good as a snowflake being told it can't melt in hell.
The genie is out of the bag for face recognition and, UK wise, I don't see any chance of our beloved bobbies not continuing to use it. It will just be impossible to know if they do and FOIs will be rejected on "Security" grounds.
The reason 2/3G is closing is to release the spectrum for other services - I don't think carriers will be happy with mobile BTS roaming the street creating interference with their services. And while a mobile BTS can liven up the meter - maybe - there still needs to be the switching network emulated to allow the transmission of data - I know that you can have a GSM in a Box solution but managing IMSIs etc is a problem.
I've been musing over the "Charge Evs" element of this.
How much digitised optical energy are Virgin going to be pumping along their fibre optic cables to adequately power a solar cell with enough energy to generate a practical EV charging amount of power?
Then if that optical cable breaks will the emerging high power light become a "weapon of mass destruction"?
"VMO2 also claims that smart city infrastructure, including electric vehicle chargers, could be connected to smart poles in future."
How much power do Virgin run to those cabs then? If they want to move into EV charging then I can see the streets being dug up again for more copper power cables to be installed - just after all the digging to get rid of copper.
Why bother with all that?
The old towns gas was 40-50% hydrogen with 30% ish methane. The pipes carried it OK. The problems came when they put dry natural gas through the system and all the tarred wet joints dried out. That led to the gas leaks / explosions following the great natural gas conversion programme.
Before Natural gas we used to heat our homes with towns gas from the gas works.
I wish people would understand that this was between 40-50% hydrogen with methane and a little carbon monoxide.
So why all the fear sbout going back to a similar composition? The nimby's and government departments who have closed down evaluations have done the country an inustice.
What could possibly go wrong?
All that that data about patients together with "the number of beds in a hospital, the size of waiting lists for elective care services, or the availability of medical supplies" being stored by a US company, with track record in supporting spying activity, and data being available to Big American Pharma.
"We see that the NHS is running low on stores of drug1234 - so they will be buying some soon - tell marketing to raise the price 20%"
"We see that the NHS waiting list for cataract operations is lengthening get our private hospitals in the Uk to start a marketing campaign for private cataract operations"
" "Facial recognition has nothing to do with the government intruding on people's personal privacy. It has to do with validating that the person presenting themselves to travel is indeed who they claim to be.""
The old you have "nothing to hide so you have nothing to fear" argument of government employed experts when the government want to do something questionable.
Photo validation can be completed locally by comparison of a live image with the Passport image at the machine - so what is the justification to send the images off to servers for storage? Simple data and biometrics collection on a grand scale.
The first thing Ofcom should insist on on is transparency - for the user - on what the Network Providers are doing - especially on what traffic is blocked/restricted/ports mucked around with etc.
I'd like to think the same should apply to the mobile networks - but maybe these are exempt from Net Neutrality?
"Commonly referred to as “town gas” or “illuminating gas,” it was a mixture of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, with small amounts of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Depending on the gasification process, hydrogen concentrations ranged from 10 per cent to 50 per cent."
When the distribution network was converted to Natural gas there were many leaks - because the dry Natural gas dried out the 'wet' joints. So it is quite possible to distribute Hydrogen, CO and methane.
I'm no petrochemist but my limited understanding is that the refining of oil will still have to continue even if we don't use the petrol and diesel fractions.
We still need the other fractions for jet fuel, lubrication products, pharmaceutical products and a whole range of other chemicals so I don't get the "Stop Oil" or "EVs will save refining of oil" arguments.
Where are all the chemists when you need them?
".....charging your EV from a 13A socket will be no more legal than running a road vehicle on Red diesel."
How will they know? Teams of CAPITA men walking the streets at night sniffing out cables 13 amp plugs and TVs tuned to BBC?
The electrons in the battery cannot be stained with an ID dye.
The story is not that clear.
When you buy liquid fuel you are paying the government 53 pence for each litre in addition to the oil cartels and garage operators.
When you charge your EV what you pay goes to the charge point operator and the electrical distribution and supply cartel.
Why can a garage operate a building, storage and all the other stuff they do for the profit from fuel sales but EV charger operators are charging like wounded bulls?
Soon the government will want it's revenue stream back from the EV chargers as well - that's only fair.