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Doubt the enemy
We are feeling a little cynical this week, as is Steve Messenger at Reuters. He was reading in Computing about Westminster Council introducing payment systems for parking meters that use chip-and-PIN payment.
He does not believe that £50,000 is stolen from Westminster’s parking meters every week.
‘I suspect this has less to do with theft and more to do with being able to instantly deduct the parking penalty from the victim after 14 days,’ he says.
‘The hapless drivers would then have to try to get their money back rather than the council trying to get it from them.’
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