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Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System

Posted by timothy on from the coming-soon-to-$yourcountry dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that as political support for Australia's version of the national ID card is waning, the powers that be have found a far more effective way to catalog the populace. CrimTrac, an Australian government agency responsible for designing technical solutions to aid policing, is due to hand in a $2.2 million scoping study for the introduction of a nationwide automatic number plate recognition system (ANPR). It seems that as well as ANPR, the system will also collect images of drivers and passengers with high enough resolution for identification purposes. All ANPR data collected would be made available to participating agencies in real time, and retained for five years for future investigations."

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  1. on-start service. by woodchip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you call the gov't up when you get lost and ask them for directions? "Help! I don't know where am I, but i see a kangaroo and the toilets are flushing backwords"

    1. Re:on-start service. by GaryPatterson · · Score: 2, Funny

      Surely you're in the bathroom. Just chase the 'roo out.

      Also - Toilets flushing backwards? Doesn't that mean stuff comes *out* of the bowl and flies up at you? Urgh

  2. Yes by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only we had more data available, we could stop all crime!

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  3. something we can use by z3d4r · · Score: 2, Funny

    load the band up onto the back of a flatbed truck, then hoon around while pretending to perform.

    request the resulting footage under the freedom of information laws, then release as the video to your latest single.

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  4. More uses for a Bill Oddie mask by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If it is good enough for Top Gear it is good enough for us

    Or maybe a Geoff Kennett, Pauline Hanson...

    Next we'll be asked to dobb-in a neighbour!

  5. I have only one thing to say. by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 2, Funny

    A long stick, a roll of duct tape, and a can of spray paint will trump even the most expensive traffic cameras.

  6. Re:Australians! Wear clown masks every time you dr by stonedcat · · Score: 1, Funny

    OP is obliviously lying. I see that text plain as day.

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  7. I'm all for this system by rolfwind · · Score: 2, Funny

    but only if it's to tag known criminals.

    That means the politicians have to get one first.

  8. Re:No ... by EdIII · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, crime will stop when the second to last person dies.

    I don't know about that. When I am all alone some of things I do to myself are a crime too :)