UK satellite snooping plan

By Regine
on July 19, 2004 3:56 PM
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According to The Inquirer (which took it from BBC 4 radio), the British Minister of the Interior, David Blunkett, confirmed that 5,000 "prolific criminals" will be tracked by satellites as part of a "five year plan" to curb crime.

The system will apparently be linked to existing electronic tagging schemes to let authorities know where these people were.

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