Don’t worry, America. I’m sure the government isn’t driving around in unmarked vehicles using security technology to look through your clothes and see your genitals.

They’ve probably outsourced it.

This could never go wrong, or become an invasion of privacy, could it? If you have nothing to hide, why would you object to random strangers looking at your genitalia without your knowledge?

Do you hate freedom, or something?

Reiss adds that the vans do have the capability of storing images. “Sometimes customers need to save images for evidentiary reasons,” he says. “We do what our customers need.”

Uh-huh.

Image taken from The Eizo Pin-up Calendar 2010.

According to the Mirror, CCTV cameras will start to scan license plates at petrol stations. If the system cannot find insurance for the car in question, it will automatically prevent them from filling up.

Hard to see where this will go wrong. There are so very many ways, after all.

In the end, I’m glad that I no longer work at a petrol station, and don’t drive a car.

Photo by bbe022001. Found at Illusion 360.
Webcomic is Imitation Cat by Ray Deathray.

Before we begin, you may be wondering what the English need to do in order to finally win the world cup. The answer is simple: buy more cats.

The European Court of Human Rights have held up a prior decision which found the stop and search powers granted under the Terrorist Act to be illegal.

Finally, the government in the UK is accepting nominations for laws to repeal in order to “restore civil liberties”. You can throw your support behind the repeal of the Digital Economy bill here.