In Brazil, All Vehicles Must Have Radio IDs By 2014 161
morcego writes "Brazil's National Traffic Council (CNT) published Friday a resolution that institutes the National System of Automatic Vehicle Identification (Siniav). According to the Q&A published (Google translation from Portuguese), only 'visible and public' information will be available (vehicle year or fabrication, make, model, combustible, engine power and license plate number), without any personal information about the owner or registration data. This system will be mandatory for all vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc) and should cost vehicle owners approximately R$5 (less than US$3)."
certainly much simpler than (Score:5, Insightful)
certainly much simpler than spending gazillion dollars on cameras with ocr for the plates, like what's being rolled out in western world.
Re:for what purpose? (Score:5, Insightful)
A national toll road system can be setup now. Tolls can be made billable to the vehicle OWNER since they have the license plate number..
License plate /= registration data? (Score:5, Insightful)
This means you are trackable.
Re:License plate /= registration data? (Score:5, Insightful)
For people (Score:3, Insightful)
I think it will not be long before it will be mandatory for persons as well here (Netherlands).
They are now putting fingerprints and other biometric parameters in your passport and identity card, and it is mandatory to carry it whenever you are outdoors.
The next step will be to implant the RFID chip.
It is now being tested with pet animals, next will probably be farm animals, and when this does not cause any obvious health problems you will be required to have a chip implanted with your identifying information.
All for the sake of the war on terrorism.
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Re:certainly much simpler than (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:certainly much simpler than (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:certainly much simpler than (Score:4, Insightful)