In response to Stuart Maurice (Your View, July 15). Dear Mr Maurice, I am certainly not a terrorist, and have nothing to hide.
"Why the fear," you ask? Having a system in place to track the vast majority of the public is a threat to our personal security!
Members of the government and its many departments can obtain access to anybody's movements. That is many thousands of people being able to watch our every move. Imagine if a female member of your family was being stalked, by somebody working for a government department.
Please remember that members of government departments are just people too.
These days people's bank accounts are easily hacked into, so has anyone thought about the fact that this will happen with the Opal system?
Having this system in place leaves the public even more vulnerable to a terrorist attack.
An organisation could hack into the system, track and possibly corner a group of people.
Also what about identity theft and crime? Yes people using stolen Opal cards can be caught, but a lot of the time they may not be caught.
I can not remember the last time I had my ticket checked by a guard.
One could use a stolen ID, obtain an Opal card and then suddenly they are you travelling around. I could not care less who knows what train I took to Coles. What I'm thinking about is how the public are being forced to conform to a system where every move is recorded.
Even when Opal cards will be available to be purchased anonymously, one's movements will still be tracked and recorded and one will be linked to their card via CCTV footage.
Stuart, do you go to work and tell your colleagues exactly where you went on the weekend? Each and every step in perfect detail? Probably not because it's none of their business.
Jane Williams, Brighton-Le-Sands
Do you have privacy concerns about the Opal Card?
