[Air-l] techno-prat 'mob rule' or New Labour 'fascism'?

[gazz]

Apropos an earlier debate on the http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ website and
the current headbang over the hi-tec Orwellian/eco-friendly (depending
on your point of view) road tracking scheme: 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/12/road_pricing_petition_response/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,2015173,00.html

The Register's correspondence on the topic is also amusing . . . 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/14/letters_1302/

By the way, your Oyster card already 'phones home' with every move you
make on public transport and I don't recall much public excitement about
that: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3121652.stm  

Paula