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The Register is reporting that Sir Andrew Leggatt, who regulates the use of covert surveillance in the UK has raised a concern that the police use of cameras build a “24×7″ database of all vehicle movements in the UK may in fact breech the Regulation of Investigative Powers Act. His solution, as the man charged with ensuring that the police obey the law in this area, is to recommend that the RIPA be changed. That suggestion does have the merit of ensuring that the scheme would be debated in Parliament and given explicit legal sanction.