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Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass
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."
Let's just get those RFID tags injected into our necks and get this over with. It is inevitable.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
Send me your EZ-pass and $5, I'll put in a small push-button switch. Only activate it when you're not out doing illegal things :-)
ALERT ALERT!!!! This is even worse than having to have a LICENSE PLATE! I don't want anyone else, (LET ALONE POLICE!) knowing who I am.
And if you do it in New York City, you should get some kind of cash prize.
(There's always traffic in NYC, traffic at 2am on the Cross Island Parkway...WHY?!)
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One Pass To rule them all
One Pass to find them
One Pass to bring them all
And in the darkness, bind them
Thank you, Sir Rudy Giuliani, former NYC prosecutor, for pushing the E-Z Pass on us when you were NYC mayor, yapping about "court orders" and "due process" for access to the data. Now you can see all the motorists on the East Coast shining in your Palantir.
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make install -not war
If you're going someplace you don't want recorded, put the freeway pass into the trunk. Duh.
--- Ban humanity.
I think it would be cool if Diebold made the E-ZPass machines. Since they don't have printers, they could never send out the ticket.
What?
(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?)
Ahh yes, our dear Slashdot, where tinfoil is headwear and 1984 is the bible.
They stamped the date and times on the paper toll tickets for the Pennsylvania Turnpike. When you exited the turnpike, they compared your exit timestamp with the entry timestamp you received when you entered the turnpike. They had a pre-printed table of elapsed times to translate into average miles-per-hour. If you arrived at the exit too soon, you automatically got a speeding violation. My dad narrowly avoided getting a ticket by being less than one minute short of the violation time. He did not tell the toll booth operator that we had stopped along the way at a roadside park and had a picnic lunch too :-)
Not soon enough, IMHO. Imagine how many countless lives could be saved by using this technology to get wreckless assholes who can't drive safely off the road.
But they're wreckless! Obviously they can drive safely if they haven't had a wreck!
Yet another reason I'll never move to Texas.
Ok, so we've got a holy book and really funny dress.
My CowboyNeal, we've got a full blown religion on our hands.
(Oh great I'm surely going to goatse.cx for this.)
I assume they'll be giving free EZ Tag's out? How do they expect people from out of state to use the road?
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
You deserve a ticket.
He deserves a high paying career as a Boeing contractor designing our nation's next generation of low-altitude combat aircraft.
We said it never sleeps, not that it never passes out after the fireworks display and a case of Stroh's. There's legally too drunk to drive, and then there's can't-reach-the-car too drunk to drive.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?