Database “creep”

Cross border speeding fines

“Big Brother” is speaking in Brussells.

EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot says cracking down on four offences will change road safety. It seems that drivers across Europe are not paying their fines for speeding, jumping red lights, and failing to wear a seatbelt. He is calling for an electronic network which would identify the owner of the vehicle and enable penalty notices to be sent to home addresses outside the country where the offence was committed.

Does this mean that all of those great big databases that the UK government is building (mugshots, DVLA, PNC, NI Numbers, health records, DNA, etc.) will be made available to our European “Big Brother” co-states, after we’ve been told that they will be safe, secure, and watertight in the bowels of Whitehall?

Yeah - for sure!