Comment on The UK has its own network of Flock-style AI cameras. So where’s the outrage?
Tweak@feddit.uk 1 week agoI was thinking on this when I wrote my comment above, and I’m not quite sure.
Either there’s a muddying of terms, where you have ANPR as a technology (which anyone could implement), and the police have their own network of ANPR cameras.
Or private businesses submit their data to an ANPR database that the police maintain.
Regardless, there’s not one big private network of ANPR cameras that the government have permitted to be installed on public land.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 days ago
ANPR is just any camera with OCR targeted at reg plates.
Police ANPR queries the Law Enforcement Data System, which contains data such as the car history, owner details, stolen cars, and persons of interest.
Commercial ANPR queries the publicly available DVLA data to gather the name and address of the owner.
Tweak@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Awesome, that’s pretty much what I thought.
Just for clarity though, does the commercial ANPR automatically provide data to police, or is that data only available upon a lawful request with a court order?
Also, the article mentions data being kept for a year. Is this a requirement for commercial ANPR?
I’ll also add that requests to the public DVLA database are only lawful if they have actual need to request that information, eg to send a ticket for a breach in parking terms. They can’t access the name and address linked to every plate that drives by the camera.