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Issuing fines for speeding is lucrative, however. Isn't there surveillance technology that can take a picture, recognize your registration plate, and

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issue a fine accordingly? What worries me about this particular technology

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that it can monitor your movements as you travel.

But at least the damn things only take photos if you _are_ speeding. Be grateful for our toll-free roads. On the French autoroutes, they can issue you with a speeding ticket if you get from one toll booth to the next too quickly, which means they must routinely register which vehicles go through and when.

This is what those small blue cameras do - at the moment they are for monitoring traffic flow but they do this by reading number plates and working out how long it takes you to get to the next one. Give it time and we will get tickets from them as well. And you can't see them as easily as the big grey ones ...

Debbie