North Sydney Council demands personal information from residents to park their cars on city streets

A city council is demanding residents hand over their personal information just to park their car as parking metres are removed from streets.

Residents in a Sydney council have become fed up after parking meters were replaced by an app payment system, demanding locals hand over their personal information.

North Sydney Council has been slammed by residents who now need an app to park their car and provide the local government with their private details.

The move comes as parking metres are removed from city streets and replaced with a mobile phone app that charges residents an 8.25 per cent surcharge for the privilege.

Confusing parking sign in North Sydney on Miller St.

Speaking to 2GB announcer Ben Fordham, North Shore resident Jimbo said it was some weird dystopian dream living in North Sydney.

In addition to the parking fiasco, a parking sign in North Sydney was also confusing residents, with Jimbo saying trying to decipher the sign was like taking a psychological test.

“I think Zoe Baker and her council are sitting there looking at us all through CCTV footage laughing their heads off at the misery we are going through,” Jimbo said.

“The kicker is if you get to the bottom and you decipher all of those signs on that one very pole you still have to wrestle with that pay stay app, because they are getting rid of the actual metres.

“It is your name, your email, you phone number, your postcode, car rego, credit card, it is not a parking metre it is a data mining operation.

North Sydney resident said mayor Zoe Baker.

“What’s next?”

Jimbo told Mr Fordham that the app was so confusing to use and once you had bared yourself to the council and given them all your personal information, you were left to figure out what zone you were in.

“It is like they have cryptographers who can only crack the code for parking,” he said.

Mr Fordham invited North Sydney mayor Zoe Baker on his show but she did not respond to his request.

Originally published as North Sydney Council demands personal information from residents to park their cars on city streets