On 14 Apr, 17:39, aracari  wrote:
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> >> 'Sam' wrote this:
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> >>>> 'Mel Rowing' wrote this:
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> >>>>>On Apr 14, 9:05 am, Phil Stovell  wrote:
> >>>>>> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:13:43 -0700, Turk182 wrote:
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> >>>>>> >> They are all censored by default.
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> >>>>>> >> Alex Heney
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> >>>>>> > You are very, very, wrong. They are not. Thousands of images have
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> >>>>>> > been censored.
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> >>>>>> > Turk182
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> >>>>>> I've been touring around places I know. I've yet to see an unobscured
> >>>>>> face
> >>>>>> or car number.
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> >>>>>And something else,
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> >>>>>You will switch on your telly on tonight and see news footage
> >>>>>featuring public streets where none of the number plates of vehicles
> >>>>>have been obscured unless the vehicle concerned is featured even if
> >>>>>the broadcast is live. This has been the case for years.
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> >>>>>What exactly is the purpose of a vehicle registration plate?  I wonder
> >>>>>what the reaction on here would be if only today it had been decided
> >>>>>to require vehicles to carry registration plates.
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> >>>>>If I wanted to go round the street or town matching up vehicles and
> >>>>>addresses I am entirely at liberty to do so but what purpose could it
> >>>>>possibly serve.
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> >>>> No, you are not at liberty to do so under normal procedures.
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> >>>Why are you not at liverty to do so.
> >>>What law prevents me from walking along a street making a note of car
> >>>registration numbers and the houses they're parked outside?
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> >> People are being accosted by all manner of interfering busybodies,
> >> including policemen and those wretched CSO people for doing things
> >> today that were once considered to be perfectly normal.
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> >> Trainspotting, carspotting, taking pix of buildings etc are just a
> >> few of them. Quite soon, it'll be difficult to take pix of people
> >> on the beach. Taking pix of policemen at demos is likely to get
> >> your camera confiscated or the film/card removed.
> >> That there are no specific laws restricting such activities, the
> >> terror laws are framed broadly enough to give the agents of
> >> the state plenty of leeway.
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> >You failed to answer my question.
> >What law prevents me from walking along a street making a note of car
> >registration numbers and the houses they're parked outside?
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> Then I suggest you re-read what I wrote, particularly the final
> para. My previous comments attempted to explain that anything
> of that nature may risk you being accosted and asked to stop.
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I heard this afternoon is that Europe is now concerned about personal
information being placed on the internet without obtaining consent.
This would I believe, incluse Google providing surfers with massive
intelligence data about every home in the country.

Turk182