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any technology used would have to give definite guarantees about privacy being protected - as it should be. Existing technologies, such as mobile phones and pay-as-you-drive insurance schemes, may well be able to play a role here, by ensuring that the Government doesn’t hold information about where vehicles have been. But there may also be opportunities presented by developments in new technology. Just as new medical technology is changing the NHS, so there will be changes in the transport sector. Our aim is to relieve traffic jams, not create a “Big Brother” society.

So that’s OK then. The government won’t track you, they’ll get the private sector to do it so that they can have all your information too. That makes everything much better. And as I pointed out above I would go so far as to say ensuring that the Government doesn’t hold information about where vehicles have been an out right lie. Of course the government is going to need and have access to that information; how else are they going to know to tax you for being there?

The only good thing in this further spam of an email is that there is finally, at the bottom, an instruction to enable opting out of receiving further emails. This is still not enough, there ought to be that option when signing a petition so I don’t have to wait for an email to know how to opt out of receiving emails) and the wording (If you would like to opt out of receiving further mail on this or any other petitions you signed, please email optout@petitions.pm.gov.uk) makes it sound as if this may be all or nothing when it should be per petition (though it might be, it isn’t clear—it isn’t even clear if that’s an auto-opt out mechanism which just responds to anything sent to it, or if you should send a real intelligible email). It’s an improvement of sorts I suppose.