Council says integrated camera network boosts security
City of Hobart Council has upgraded the city’s legacy security system and reinstated it as a single, citywide integrated network.
1 August, 2022City of Hobart Council has upgraded the city’s legacy security system and reinstated it as a single, citywide integrated network.
1 August, 2022A WA council is incentivising residents to register their CCTV systems with a police database.
7 March, 2022A privacy expert is calling for a national review by councils of the public safety benefits of CCTV cameras after an audit found surveillance data were vulnerable to privacy breaches.
5 October, 2018The Australian urban streetscape has long featured video surveillance via high definition cameras. But there is more to security than high quality hardware – you need the right systems and techniques behind it. Many countries are now stepping up their security in terms of technology, budget and the number and skills of people involved in […]
11 December, 2017Biometric recognition systems.
13 December, 2016Manly Council polices tourist buses and mobility parking spots.
2 November, 2015Who’s watching Australia’s electronic eyes?
16 July, 2015WA Police want access to council and private CCTV footage.
2 April, 2015Surveillance of whistleblowers could breach parliamentary privilege.
27 May, 2014The use of CCTV cameras by local governments is about to come under scrutiny by the AIC as it tries to evaluate whether governments are getting value for money through their investment in these critical surveillance systems.
19 May, 2014The New South Wales government has gone shopping for higher resolution surveillance cameras for its mass transit network to improve safety on trains, light rail, buses and ferries.
18 March, 2014By Paul Hemsley City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore is looking to boost the number of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras monitoring central streets as part of the council’s ongoing campaign to make the city safer after nightfall. After prominently backing the NSW Police crackdown on booze fuelled violence and disorder in some of Sydney’s […]
10 December, 2013By Paul Hemsley Vandals caught defacing public and private property could soon be forced to scrub off their own unsightly mess under a hands-on aversion therapy plan by the Queensland government that will let local governments pressgang offenders into the role of council cleaners. The plan to force taggers to erase either their efforts or […]
25 June, 2013By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski A fresh row over how councils can use video surveillance and CCTV in New South Wales has erupted after moves by Local Government Minister Don Page to relax privacy regulations governing cameras encountered resistance from the Greens in the state’s upper house. The Greens have moved a motion that […]
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