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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. Re:Hype and FUD ? by Archfeld · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    errr better do some reading again..EVERY TOYOTA SOLD IN THE US HAS THE GPS UNIT, EVERY GM CAR SOLD IN THE US...I have a caddy, WE opted NOT to activate the Onstar crap, while looking for a parking spot in Vegas last month,we went around the block like nine times, the onstar rep came on and asked us if we needed help. The lady was very polite and quickly signed off but assured us that the units were activated if you payed for it or not and that to remove it would cause the airbags to not fu8nction correctly. Now I don't have it in writing but I tend to trust me EARS and experience more than FUD or not to imply you don't know but general word of mouth.

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    errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
  3. No one who is pro war by waspleg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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