CountryWatch – Rural Surveillance

Eighteen months or so ago, looking for a bite to eat in advance of going to catch a flight, we stumbled across a village somewhere, with a village green… and a surveillance camera.

Over the weekend, in rural Devon, down a steep, single track road, leading to an out of the way beach, and a coastal walk: a car park.

A pay on exit carpark.

A pay on exit car park with ANPR.

A pay on exit car park with ANPR and car registration autocomplete as part of the payment machine UI.

I hate modern technology.

PS Meanwhile, in Downderry, Devon, some villagers at least seem to be of the mind that “the arrival of the [ANPR] cameras [in the local pub car park] was ‘an offence in a village setting'”.

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Author: Tony Hirst

I'm a Senior Lecturer at The Open University, with an interest in #opendata policy and practice, as well as general web tinkering...

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