Re: Speed Camera Fine/NSW-wrong Driver?HELP!

Stephen X. Carter wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 22:19:45 +0000 (UTC), Saab C900 Viggenist
<c900@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> peterwn <peterwn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>
>>> On May 10, 11:33 pm, Saab C900 Viggenist <c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Yes you can purchase copies of photo(s) by sending $11 to the SDRO (I
did
>>>> that recently for a camera fine notice I've received), but they will
NOT
>>>> show faces due to privacy laws - if any personal features are visible
>>>> they're obscured before the pictures are printed and sent.
>>>>
>>> Golly! I have never heard of such PC crap in all my life!  Surely the
>>> owner of a car is entitled to see a picture of the person driving his
>>> or her car especially when the driver has dropped the owner in it.
>>> Perhaps privacy is merely an excuse, the authorities do not want
>>> drivers identified as it causes them more hassle and work.
>> Don't really know, but the rules about getting copies of the pictures
are
>> very explicit to say that any visible faces shown will be 'blocked'. I
guess
>> it just means someone digitally alters the image before printing it,
but
>> then that raises the question of the im****tant features (like rego
number,
>> etc.) being changed or potentially changed.
>>
>> I have never been in a court hearing over a speed camera fine so I
don't
>> know if the pictures used as evidence have faces 'blocked'. Anyone
know?
>>
>> I can think of one reason (which is a bit counter-productive) - if the
car
>> has been stolen, then because the vehicle owner wasn't driving it, the
>> identity of the thief is *protected by privacy laws* in any images
captured
>> for an 'official' fine-issuing purpose by a speed camera, etc. Really
stupid
>> (hence the note it's counter-productive), but that's the way privacy
>> legislation works (at least here in NSW). It might be national since
there
>> are national privacy Acts too.
> 
> Dredging through a hazy memory (so don't flame too hard if bits are
wrong!)...
> 
> Wasn't there a case not so long ago of a High Court Judge who owned a
car that was caught
> speeding, and when asked who was driving he named someone who had (he
said) since returned to
> the USA.
> 
> She later turned out to have been dead several years.
> 
> I seem to recall that he (in some form) repeated the deception (but I
may be wrong about that).
> 
> Eventually he was done for perjury.

'twas a former Federal Court judge, Marcus Einfield. He has yet to be
tried.

<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/einfeld-trial-postponed-for-month/2008/03/31/1206850763836.html>

Sylvia.