Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: aus.computers,aus.legal,aus.politics Subject: Re: Census 2016 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:10:21 +1000 Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <57A00CD3.5040700@yahoo.com> <1uidncrzxb06gj3KnZ2dnUU7-WvNnZ2d@westnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net b+jsatfgqSLkGGeOZG+1EQI62UKlX1c7U7LvBA/+J+emDO2Po= Cancel-Lock: sha1:KCKyzcxbZRP4gC7fVVoFrHOBwqQ= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:53973 aus.legal:60896 aus.politics:577629 "Sylvia Else" wrote in message news:e0bi05Fqlh8U1@mid.individual.net... > On 2/08/2016 4:30 PM, Fran Farmer wrote: >> On 2/08/2016 4:25 PM, Je�us wrote: >>> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:03:47 +1000, Sylvia Else >>> wrote: >> >>>> Indeed, I remember the privacy concerns in NSW when driving licences >>>> first contained photographs. The legislation addressed these concerns >>>> by >>>> expressly stating that the RTA must NOT retain the photographs. >>>> >>>> Guess what the situation is now? >>> >>> Hmm, I think I can guess what it might be now. >> >> You don't need to guess, full details are online and are not nearly as >> scary, spooky and open slather as implied: >> http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/rta2013187/ >> > > The original situation was that the photographs were to allow the police > to determine that a person tendering a licence was the person who held > that licence. That was all. The government did not have a database > containing the photographs of most of the adult population. > The situation now is that such a database exists, and is available to the > police for any purpose, Like hell it is. > to a variety of other agencies, Fuck all in fact. > and to anyone at all at the stroke of a pen that changes the statutory > rules. Parliament can negate such a change, but only after the event. That last utterly mangles the real story too. > What was originally designed for a very narrow purpose has had pretty much > all the function creep that could be imagined. Another bare faced lie. > It seems entirely possible that similar function creep will apply to the > ABS census database, now that the ABS has made such function creep useful. Even sillier than you usually manage.