05-03-2012, 05:04 PM
The Covert Implementation of Mass Vehicle Surveillance in Australia
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Xamax Consultancy, Canberra Visiting Professor at ANU, UNSW, and the Uni. of Hong Kong Chair, Australian Privacy Foundation
Beyond Red Light / Speed Cameras To Vehicle Surveillance
Vehicles can be monitored in various ways, e.g.
Manual Inspection of VINs, registration plates
Passive RFID-tags passing control-points
On-Board Transmitters, with self-reporting of GPS-based or other coordinates
Vehicle Registration Data can be monitored:
Cameras were wet chemistry, are now digital
Data Extraction was manual, is now automated
Auto-Lookup of Blacklists is now feasible
Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
A Digital Camera Captures an image of a motor vehicle’s 'number' plate
Software Extracts the registration data (numbers, letters, perhaps other data such as colour and jurisdiction identifiers)
List(s) of Numbers Being Sought Enables evaluation of the significance of the extracted data
Transmission Facilities Sends the extracted data and perhaps other data elsewhere
LEAs – Operational Applications
Detection and Interception of:
Wanted Vehicles, in particular:
'Reported Stolen'
'Get-Away Cars'
Vehicles associated with Persons of Interest
Dependent on:
Real-Time Acccess to ...
Real-Time-Maintained Data Sources
