Home Office: Car journeys to be stored on a national database for five years

CCTV cameras, converted to read ANPR data, capturing people’s movement. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/ReutersThe police are to expand a car surveillance operation that will allow them to record and store details of millions of daily journeys for up to five years, the Guardian has learned. Paul Lewis on police plans to store car surveillance records [...] continue reading the breaking news