Hi! all and more..... and I just sent out some reading material to my
Special Distribution List thinking I'd covered most items of interest
when this "dropped in "!(see item below) Sorry about any duplication of
my mail list and implication of our American contingent on the Europa
Forum but I can envisage this being also being used to "fix up" General
Aviation so it is at least relevant to the Europa Forum.
? and presumably aircraft movements and air navigation charges along
with council tax valuation spy in the sky technology ?
How much more are we going to take lying down?
Some chance of a happy new year on a shrinking inadequate pension? !
Bob H .
Robt.C.Harrison
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From: Josephine white [mailto:josephine.white1@btinternet.com]
Subject: EU Referendum - Electronic tagging.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Electronic tagging
Booker does us proud today, with a special mention of the Blog in his
column - which, needless to say, the techies on the Telegraph site
haven't
translated into a live link.
The subject - as you might have guessed - is Galileo, Booker picking up
on
my earlier pieces (here and here) on the inability of the media to cover
the
issue in a grown-up fashion.
Interestingly, the very point Booker makes is amply demonstrated by a
new
piece on the BBC website, which deal with one aspect of the system -
road
charging.
Written by BBC News science reporter, Paul Rincon, under the headline
"navigating future for road charges", this piece waxes lyrical about how
the
Galileo network "would allow a vehicle's exact movements to be tracked,
presenting new possibilities for road-user charging and tolling." The
precision and availability of the Galileo signal, we are told, would
facilitate the application of charges according to the distance
travelled by
a vehicle, along with other parameters.
Then chirps Rincon, "each motorist would, of course, need to carry a
satellite-linked 'smart box' in their car," but what he does not mention
anywhere is that this so-called "smart box" picks up the Galileo signal,
translates it into positional data and then adds your details in order
to
beam it on to the road charging administrator.
This means, of course, that you are effectively carrying a tracking bug
in
your car and every movement made in the vehicle will be recorded and
retained. "Big brother" will be in the back seat or the boot (trunk, for
our
American friends) and, any time they wish, state authorities will be
able to
call up information.
Why the Beeb should want to omit such an important detail can only be
imagined, but you can bet that, if the government decided to insist on
electronic tagging of everyone, there would be an outcry. Yet, this is
exactly what the system is - it is an electronic tag by any other name,
and
you don't even have to commit a crime to get one.
http://www.eureferendum.blogspot.com/
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