Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System 176
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."
on-start service. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:on-start service. (Score:3, 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
Yes (Score:5, Funny)
something we can use (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.
More uses for a Bill Oddie mask (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!
I have only one thing to say. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Australians! Wear clown masks every time you dr (Score:1, Funny)
OP is obliviously lying. I see that text plain as day.
I'm all for this system (Score:3, Funny)
but only if it's to tag known criminals.
That means the politicians have to get one first.
Re:No ... (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know about that. When I am all alone some of things I do to myself are a crime too :)