ANPR cameras expose the need for human rights link
6 April 2010
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If ever you wanted an example of why there should be an express linkage between the Human Rights Act (HRA) and the Data Protection Act (DPA), then consider the front page lead of last weekend’s Sunday Times (followed by other newspapers such as the Daily Mail). It reported that the police were using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras to collect millions of car number plates, dates and times when cars passed the cameras and keeping the resultant personal data
