[LINK] Google StreetView Launched in Oz

[Kimberley Heitman]

>Ivan said:
>> I'm puzzled by this: why number plates? Is it possible for
>> Joe Public to determine the ownership of a vehicle?
>
>When I was in The Land of the Pom recently I took a photo of my mate's
>car. He said "If you're going to publish that on the web, please obscure
>the number plate." The reason, he explained, is that there's a thriving
>business in copying number plates seen on the web and flogging them to
>people with identical cars so that they can then speed past speed
>cameras and park in no parking zones with impunity.
>
>I've never heard of it here, but he tells me it's rife over there.
>
>Fred

It's an exploit based on the law in the UK that number plates can be made or
replaced by the car owner. In Oz, it doesn't work because the number plates
are issued to the car owner by the police/licencing authority. 

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Kimberley James Heitman
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