[LINK] Bluetooth device tracking used by .au councils to measure traffic

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

> Bluetooth data collection is used for traffic studies across Australia and worldwide. Please be assured that this technology is not able to collect any personal data and there is no way to identify individuals through Bluetooth devices. If the technology could in any way contravene the Privacy Act or other legislation, TAMS [Canberra municipal services] would not use it.
> The Bluetooth technology allows for information to be collected about the movement of cars through a suburb. Data receivers collect an electronic signature at the entry and exit points to suburbs and by looking at the time it takes vehicles to travel that distance it can be determined whether they are ‘rat running’ or whether they were instead going to the local shops or dropping their kids off at school. If data is captured only at the entry point then it can be determined that the owner of the vehicle must live in the suburb.
> TAMS has received many safety and complaints relating to rat running in Chisholm, Gilmore, Richardson, Macarthur, Fadden and Gowrie and is responding with detailed traffic studies. Bluetooth technology is being used instead of manual counting as it much more accurately records traffic flows. It also offers a greater degree of privacy than that which can be provided with toll tag tracking or license plate surveys due to the fact that there are no databases of Bluetooth addresses that can be used to associate addresses with individual owners or their vehicles.
> The Minister has asked TAMS to include information on Bluetooth data collection on its website, as we understand people may have concerns or questions about how it works.

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