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       ULEZ cameras 3% error rate?
   DIR By: John U.K.
       Date: October 12, 2023, 1:29 pm
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       See
  HTML https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/ulez-speed-cameras-fines-error-rate-anpr/
       apparently 3% equates to 2 million numberplates wrongly
       identified.
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       > Professor Fraser Sampson, the surveillance camera
       commissioner, said the ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition)
       camera network’s three per cent error rate for reading car
       number plates meant there were “significant risks” of penalty
       notices being wrongly issued to innocent motorists.
       >
       > In a letter to Transport Secretary Mark Harper Professor
       Sampson warned it could also be a breach of data protection laws
       through the misuse of inaccurate data, a problem that he said he
       has asked the Information Commissioner John Edwards to
       investigate.
       >
       > He also warned the ANPR camera system, which covers some
       15,400 roads or traffic lanes, was “staggeringly simple” for
       motorists to deceive either through using cloned plates or
       plastic “stealth” tape to hide the true owner’s registration
       number.
       >
       > He said there was evidence that as many as one in 15 drivers
       may already be using anti-ANPR technology and this was likely to
       increase with the roll-out of more Ulez zones, traffic
       restrictions and new 20mph speed limits.
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