Nigel
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"dash cam footage submissions to the police are leading to as many as 90,000 motoring convictions, prosecutions, or warnings per year."Speed cameras and traffic enforcement do indeed save lives Nigel, but you are still missing the point about the significant dangers to a modern democratic society when a government subjects its citizens to ubiquitous, intrusive, mufti-layered mass surveillance and data collection.
"The most captured driving offence by dash came users was motorists on their mobile or electronic devices, which carries a minimum of six points on your licence and a £200 fine."
If you are in public then you are being surveilled anyway, the cameras simply make the prosecutions much easier, it means that people do actually get prosecuted for their law breaking instead of getting away with it and then maybe killing someone the next time.
I'm not sure what you think our government is doing with our dashcam surveillance footage, we have data protection laws in place that mean our government does not have access to our dashcam footage, or the police camera footage, unless we or the police decide to make it public, as we/they sometimes do, which is normally done in compliance with the appropriate laws.
"31% of British motorists currently own a dash cam, "when a government subjects its citizens to ubiquitous, intrusive, mufti-layered mass surveillance and data collection.
"75% think these trusty gadgets should be used by every driver "
"24% hold the opinion that dash cams should be a compulsory part of driving in the UK."
I believe the police dashcam video submission system has been implemented on request/demand of the public, assisted by our government implementing a national dashcam forensics unit and providing funds for our police forces to implement submission systems for us. It was not the government that subjected us to it, many of our police forces have resisted its implementation, but ended up implementing it anyway due to public demand. The current surveillance system in the UK is backed by the public, we would change it if we didn't like it, the British public can and do force our government to do things, our current gun laws are a good example, implemented and modified due to public demand, Brexit is another example - not supported by any significant government parties, but forced through by the public, although not all agreed, only the majority! Our government serves the people, not the other way around, or however you describe what your government is doing, or not doing at the moment!
(Quotes from a survey published last month)