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"Chris Street" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:38:25 -0000, "Paul Saunders" <[email protected]> wrote:
|
| >stemc © wrote:
| >
| >>> But they're usually criminals aren't they? So they want to protect their identity.
| >>
| >> Protect a criminals identity? So why not protect a normal person's identity?
| >
| >If someone has broken the law they might be unfairly persecuted by others. Why would a normal
| >person be persecuted?
| >
| >It seems standard to blur faces and number plates and suchlike in programmes about crime, but not
| >in other cases. How many TV programmes feature cars driving along? How many blur the number
| >plates?
|
| Channel 5 have taken to blurring out everything on the weird car program that they run. The most
| pointless one I saw was the blurring and removal of the name on a Royal mail van, and the BP name
| and logo on a petrol station - how *obvious* are both those!
I've seen some programme's and newspapers that blur stuff, and others that don't. I don't know if
it's a hit and miss thing, or if there's a privacy law or anything.
| >>>> Or have you seen photos of people's cars in newspapers? Same here.
| >>>
| >>> But why?
| >>
| >> Not always, but when I have seen it, it's probably for the same reason as above.
| >
| >But what reason exactly? So you can read the number plate? What use is that to most people?
|
| Dunno but when I find the cretin in London whose cloned mine I'll ram eighty nine congestion
| charge tickets up his ****.
Maybe someone took a photo of your car, then uploaded it to their web space? ;-)
| > How many people are in a position to check who that number plate belongs to,
|
| Anyone who sends £2:50 to DVLA at Swansea.....
Hey, that's not fair, I was just going to send off my £2.50, but Paul blacked out the number
plate now.
| > and why would they want to anyway?
| >
| >Paul
Ste
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| On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:38:25 -0000, "Paul Saunders" <[email protected]> wrote:
|
| >stemc © wrote:
| >
| >>> But they're usually criminals aren't they? So they want to protect their identity.
| >>
| >> Protect a criminals identity? So why not protect a normal person's identity?
| >
| >If someone has broken the law they might be unfairly persecuted by others. Why would a normal
| >person be persecuted?
| >
| >It seems standard to blur faces and number plates and suchlike in programmes about crime, but not
| >in other cases. How many TV programmes feature cars driving along? How many blur the number
| >plates?
|
| Channel 5 have taken to blurring out everything on the weird car program that they run. The most
| pointless one I saw was the blurring and removal of the name on a Royal mail van, and the BP name
| and logo on a petrol station - how *obvious* are both those!
I've seen some programme's and newspapers that blur stuff, and others that don't. I don't know if
it's a hit and miss thing, or if there's a privacy law or anything.
| >>>> Or have you seen photos of people's cars in newspapers? Same here.
| >>>
| >>> But why?
| >>
| >> Not always, but when I have seen it, it's probably for the same reason as above.
| >
| >But what reason exactly? So you can read the number plate? What use is that to most people?
|
| Dunno but when I find the cretin in London whose cloned mine I'll ram eighty nine congestion
| charge tickets up his ****.
Maybe someone took a photo of your car, then uploaded it to their web space? ;-)
| > How many people are in a position to check who that number plate belongs to,
|
| Anyone who sends £2:50 to DVLA at Swansea.....
Hey, that's not fair, I was just going to send off my £2.50, but Paul blacked out the number
plate now.
| > and why would they want to anyway?
| >
| >Paul
Ste