Time for our new leadership to review Automatic Number Plate Recognition as part of its reassessment of ID in the digital age. What sort of country do we want to live in? One like China where surveillance is universal as part of their state's total control of internet access? ANPR has been permitted to morph from a police tool combatting vehicle-related crime, to private corporations, with no national conversation. Implicit, is state collusion - sale of private data to the parking oligarchs.