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Sep 18

the new smart-ticketing system in melbourne is a boon for cops, apparently

Victoria’s public transport authority is increasingly handing over information about myki users’ movements to police, raising concerns that the smartcard is being used as a tracking device.

The Transport Ticketing Authority says police have made 113 requests about myki users since the smartcards were introduced in late 2009.

There have already been 71 requests for customer movements this year, more than three times the number of requests received last year.

the age. 

“just get a myki”, they said

“security culture is so 2008”, they said

WHO’S LAUGHING NOW

not me, because I cracked and got a myki

Posted at 3:40 PM 19 notes Tagged: australiamelbournemykipolicepublic transportI don't actually top it up online and I have a few that I rotate but still

  1. tinyfangs reblogged this from ourcatastrophe and added:
    — i gave up a long time ago. they can have it, all my informations, whatever. UGH. fucking creepy.
  2. cherrybabygurl reblogged this from that-idiot-over-there
  3. jesusmaryandjosephclosethewindow said: just don’t track it on da internet? we have smart ticketing in bris too but unless you register it they don’t know who is travelling those places
  4. femalewolverine reblogged this from petitesurrealiste and added:
    So this is exactly why I don’t top up online. It’s shit like this myki
  5. petitesurrealiste reblogged this from ourcatastrophe and added:
    fuckin’ myki.
  6. parrotfeather reblogged this from ourcatastrophe and added:
    Greece, coming soon
  7. that-idiot-over-there reblogged this from ourcatastrophe
  8. str-crssd reblogged this from extendedmetaphor
  9. hi-glitz said: just get an unregistered one?
  10. extendedmetaphor reblogged this from ourcatastrophe
  11. moniquemallo reblogged this from ourcatastrophe and added:
    >:(
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