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18/09/2008
Complaint over police retaining driving records |
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A human rights group has lodged an official complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following news that the police are to keep driving records for five years.
Initially, senior police officers said they would be using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras to track the time and location of all vehicles on the road and would keep the data for two years.
The Guardian reported that the Home Office has subsequently admitted that it would be keeping the data for five years.
Human Rights group, Privacy International, has said that keeping the records for an extended period of time is both "unnecessary and disproportionate".
Privacy International is also concerned about and want clearer guidance on who may have access to the car journey data.
According to the Guardian, the police are being encouraged to "fully and strategically exploit" the database to help in investigations from petty crime to counter-terrorism. |
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