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Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass

Posted by michael on from the tracking-made-ez dept.

John_Schmidt writes "The AP is reporting that police are using EZ-Pass records to solve crimes. Lawyers are also getting the records to use in divorce cases. The article also mentions that the NYS Thruway has sensors to read the cards along the highway (not just at toll booths) but says the data is scrambled and not stored."

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  1. Re:How soon.. by interiot · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Then government representatives will be able to make political hay by showing up for photo-ops when the toolbooths are converted back for real-live-people mode. Illinois' governor recently did his toll-booth photo-op for a two-lane toll booth an hour outside Chicago.

    (or they'd make political hay from mandating a no-evil-uses-with-EZPass policy, but this is Slashdot, so we all just assume a police state is inevitable, right?)

  2. No one who is pro war by waspleg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    should ever be telling someone else to "rent a clue"