Another step towards Big Brother

Another excellent article at the Register. Technology is obviously going to make all sorts of things possible, but just because something can be done does not necessarily mean that it should be done. Dealing with untaxed and more seriously uninsured cars is obviously a good thing - uninsured drivers cause a lot of grief every year. But as we all know

Power corrupts - absolute power is kind of neat

or something like that. Technology or even legislation introduced for honourable reasons (look, I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt here, OK?) can later be used in less benign ways. It is really difficult to know where the line should be drawn but if we don't draw it somewhere, pretty soon we may have no say in the matter at all. At the very least there should be an open and informed debate about the price we are prepared to pay for security and law enforcement, and I don't see that debate happening at the moment.