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       ULEZ cameras 3% error rate?
       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.
       [quote]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.[/quote]
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