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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. Use the handicapped stall by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...and shit like a king.

  2. Goatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Goatse.

    You nerds love it.

  3. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It strikes me that by encouraging emigration to Australia, Canada would simultaneously improve the average IQ of their population and the IQ of Australia.

  4. Re:Yes by jacquesm · · Score: 1, Troll

    Something similar is currently happening along the Mexican / Texas border ;)

    And I hear they're trying to increase the average IQ of Alaska by moving some of their people to Washington...

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  5. Fuck the ALP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuckings to that little communist loving dweeb Kevin Rudd and all the stupid cunts who voted for the ALP.

    Ride a motorbike - helmet covers your face and there's no number plant on the front.