A device which alerts drivers to the proximity of police has come under scrutiny.
Officials in the UK are considering if the Target Blu Eye device is in breach of the Wireless Telegraphy Act which governs the use of radio communications.
Target Blu Eye costs £999. It can detect the presence of an emergency vehicle more than half a mile distant by picking up encoded radio signals.
Flashing lights, ranging from green to amber to red depending on proximity, then warn the driver of a police car or helicopter.
Its distributor claims it will help prevent accidents by letting drivers know that nearby emergency vehicles are likely to be driving very fast.
But the device faces opposition based on fears that it will be used by criminals and speeding motorists.
AA spokesman Luke Bosdet said: “The only person who will have one of these fitted to their cars is the type of person who is trying to dodge the law.”
Similar concerns were raised about mechanisms which detect the location of speed traffic cameras, which remain legal although some would like these also to be banned.
A Home Office spokesman said: “We continually monitor new technologies to assess their impact on the ability of the police and law enforcement agencies to protect the public.”
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And is presumably exactly why Portugal is still so far behind what the EU requires from its member states policing. Judges routinely disallowing recordings of criminals discussing their plans.
Warplanes and drones equipped with not just the ability to track mobile phones but also to use voice analysis software to confirm who is using that phone.
This article also confirms that the Portuguese policing system is simply not trusted to handle sensitive information. As regular readers will already know Interpol do not circulate sensitive criminal intelligence to Portugal.
Portugal also not being acceptable as a member of the "14 Eyes" Intelligence sharing group - presumably their Spanish cousins get this information and supervise who in Portugal then sees it.
An arrangement that would presumably cease if Portugal attempts to stop the Spanish extension of their economic zone around the Canaries Islands!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html