With the recent discussion on the EU wanting access to our encrypted messages bringing privacy on the foreground again, there's another privacy issue I would like to point on.

Belgium (and especially Flanders Region) is building a dense surveillance camera network rapidly. Along (major) roads, most of these cameras consist of an ANPR camera and dome camera. Thus, they capture their environment as well as monitoring all passing traffic.

Originally intended (or so the government claims) to track criminal traffic, stolen cars etc., they have since been used for average speed checks on a large scale, and more recently for other law-enforcement purposes, such as tracking licence plates for which tax hasn't been paid.

However, the combination of the speed at which this network is being deployed, the right-wing government in Flanders Region, and the fact that they're used for far more purposes than they were intended to, may indicate a wider purpose: a government surveillance system.