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

[Kim Holburn]

NSW has had Safe-T-Cam for ages.  It's supposed to only be for trucks  
but would be simple to adapt for cars.

On 2008/Sep/28, at 10:51 AM, Lea de Groot wrote:

> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> 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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> Lea de Groot
> Brisbane. .au
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