Re: Legality
Evidence in a UK court is admitted if it is in the interest of justice for it to be admitted. The Judge decides and how it was obtained is largely immaterial. Of course with ANPR evidence there are many reliability and continuity problems but these should be dealt with by the opposing barristers who will explain to the jury all aspects of a large, replicated and distributed, secure database relying on optical character recognition in a system provided by the lowest bidder, outsourced, moved overseas, returned to UK, copied, backed up, restored and queried. No possibility of error.
I'm all for scroats driving without tax, insurance and MOT being collared but the police have to more or less catch them in the act. Once recognised and checked the VRN can be used to cue the traffic police or discarded. The database behind the ANPR system is all about surveillance and intelligence. It is extra-legal and our only hope is getting it in front of the European Court.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
