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

[Roger Clarke]

At 18:51 +1000 28/9/08, 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.

APF policy statement at:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/ANPR-0803.html

APF media release that gave rise to the report in the Oz:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Media/MR-080921-ANPR.pdf

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