[LINK] CRIMTRAC's planned automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system could become a mass surveillance system

[Lea de Groot]

Not quite on topic, but fairly close...
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,24387179-15306,00.html
CRIMTRAC's planned automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system  
could become a mass surveillance system, taking as many as 70 million  
photos of cars and drivers every day across a vast network of roadside  
cameras.

State and federal police forces want full-frontal images of vehicles,  
including the driver and front passenger, that are clear enough for  
identification purposes and usable as evidence in court.

"All vehicles passing through a fixed or mobile ANPR camera will have  
the data recorded and available for interrogation," CrimTrac told the  
Queensland TravelSafe inquiry into the use of ANPR for road safety.

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Mr Vaile said it was false to represent the proposal as number plate  
recognition: "It's a photograph-all-drivers system."


Interesting Times!

Lea
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