The Government’s Intelligence Centre is to compile a database to track and store the international travel records of millions of Britons.
The intelligence centre will store names, addresses, telephone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details for all 250 million journeys made in and out of the UK each year.
Regular travellers taking their cars overseas therefore that exceed their visiting limits on their green card car insurance policy could find themselves at risk of having any insurance claims rejected if this information is shared with insurance providers. It is therefore going to be even more important to ensure your insurer is made aware of any overseas travel you make in your car.
The computerised pattern of every individual’s travel history will be kept for up to 10 years.
In fact, the e-Borders scheme initiative has already screened over 75 million passengers against immigration, customs and police watch-lists, leading to over 2,700 arrests for crimes such as murder, rape and assault” according to Minister of State for borders and immigration Philip Woolas.
The Government says the database is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and terrorism but MPs and privacy campaigners in opposition, offer other suggestions, saying they fear it is a significant step towards us all living in a surveillance society.
The e-Borders scheme covers flights, ferries and rail journeys so even those taking their cars overseas will not escape having their details included on this database. The scheme is also hoped to help establish identify those people avoiding UK tax by claiming to be resident overseas.
There is a staged approach to achieving full operational status by March 2014.
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