[FYI] UK Home Office unit looking at electronic offender tagging

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28148.html

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UK Home Office unit looking at electronic offender tagging  

By John Lettice  

Posted: 18/11/2002 at 12:37 GMT  

Has Hilary Benn MP become the UK's Minister for Cyborging? An article 
in yesterday's Observer newspaper might imply he's dangerously near 
to it. The story, unfortunately, starts the usual hares about people-
chipping in its lead-in paragraphs, which does kind of obscure the 
real story lurking beneath.  

The paper got hold of a copy of a letter from Benn to Labour MP 
Andrew Mackinley. Benn is currently government Minister for Community 
and Custodial Provision, which among other things covers the 
observation and control of sex offenders. Says Benn: "The Electronic 
Monitoring Team is... looking actively at the possibilities for using 
tracking technology to monitor offenders' whereabouts as they move 
from one place to another."  

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