<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_re_us/e_z_divorces[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_re_us/e_z_divorces</a></p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>This is coincidental to the news story I read last night about a cheating husband and the records from the florist of sending roses to his mistress, discovered by the wife. Husband is suing the florist.</p>
<p>My friend owns a construction business. By checking his EZ pass records, he was able to figure out when his workers left the construction site everyday.</p>
<p>It’s also commonly used to nab speeders. Simple math determines that you must have been speeding in order to get from toll booth A to toll booth B in X amount of time. :eek:</p>
<p>My state doesn’t use EZ-tag to nab speeders. You can bet that there would be a lot of people who simply stopped using the toll roads.</p>
<p>This is really nothing new though. Here there are EZ-tag sensors everywhere because they use them for traffic information–a useful thing. Supposedly this is anonymous, but it’s common sense to realize that they could collect personal information and track you on every major highway/road even if it isn’t a toll road.</p>
<p>Here’s a thought:
If one were so inclined, they could make an EZ-tag sensor with off the shelf parts and wire it to a high-powered explosive, read the tag from the target’s car, program the sensor to detonate the explosive when it reads the target’s tag. That’s what we like to call a (relatively) selective IED. </p>
<p>What’s the lesson here? Stick your EZ-TAG in a Faraday cage before you commit a crime/cheat on your wife/if you think someone is out to kill you.</p>
<p>I love my ez-pass. I always look at the people waiting and think to myself: why aren’t they getting an ez-pass?</p>
<p>I honestly think that all cars should come with them built into the car, and then it’s up to you if you want to activate it and link it to your bank account or whatever. It’s such an ugly white thing in my window of my black car. Looks kind of stupid… but I love it.</p>
<p>I don’t know about other states, but it takes 38.00 to start one here. 3.00 for some type of fee, and then 35.00 in your EZ pass account. I think it replenishes itself at 10.00. </p>
<p>I think it’s funny that people are using it to track down infidelities.</p>
<p>We knew all this already from Law & Order!</p>
<p>I guess I better start watching L & O cause I am not sure what this EZ pass is,
something on your car that track you by satellite?</p>
<p>Emerald, It’s a thing that you put in your window for toll roads/bridges/whatever. I think it’s more of an east coast type thing. Do you have toll roads out where you are? Like the turnpike or whatever? </p>
<p>Instead of having to wait in line at the tolls to pay your dollar or whatever it is, you can “purchase” an EZ pass for 3.00 like I said and you start it with 35.00 and after that you link it to your bank account. Then at the tolls there are EZ pass lanes for you to go to and you don’t stop and pay, you just drive through and it just scans your EZ pass as you go by and deducts it from your balance. It’s a great time saver, especially when you look and see how backed up some of the tolls are. Also some roads here give you a discount for using the EZ pass on them.</p>
<p>What this article and such is referring to is that the EZ pass logs your usage (of course, so it knows how much to deduct from your balance and such). I could log into mine and see at what times on what days I was driving on the turnpike at a certian exit. Or what day I went over the Ben Franklin Bridge to get to New Jersey. That type of thing. So apparently wives are looking on the logs to see if their husbands are where they say they are and finding out they are elsewhere.</p>
<p>“I could log into mine and see at what times on what days I was driving on the turnpike at a certain exit. Or what day I went over the Ben Franklin Bridge to get to New Jersey. That type of thing.”</p>
<p>And since this info is so readily available to Fendergirl, as a consumer service, it MUST be equally available to any government, as well as many private agencies, with the will to access it. If that thought makes you in any way squeamish, you might want to think a bit before purchasing this convenience. The databases for services such as On-Star and other GPS systems must be teaming with information deemed useful to any number of agencies, possibly motivated by agendas both benign and malignant. In this vein, there probably aren’t many U.S. citizens who feel comfortable with the idea of having a tracking chip placed beneath their skin (like those used to recover missing pets). It could at some point, save your life, if you were lost in the wilderness, or criminally abducted. But countless Rights-abusive scenarios (that it doesn’t take a visionary to imagine) make it something most people wouldn’t subscribe to. What percentage of people wouldn’t think long and hard before even allowing such a device to be implanted in their minor children (even if it allowed you to be able to determine their whereabouts at any time?)</p>
<p>We in America a still very much enamored with our “Right to Privacy”. I think we would all be appalled if we knew the full extent to which this is a functional illusion in today’s world.</p>
<p>In Dallas we call it a “Toll Tag”.</p>
<p>If you’re really worried about being tracked, stay off your computer and use cash for everything.</p>
<p>Seriously. I don’t really care who knows what toll roads I use and what time I use them. Since I’m not planning any adultery or bank heists. I don’t really care if someone knows what website I go to either. Except maybe this one (jk). Actually, I can’t really imagine what about my life I wouldn’t want someone to know. Except obviously my bank account numbers, but that’s for security, not privacy. If you have something to hide, then you deserve to get caught.</p>
<p>MomOfWildChild - </p>
<p>Yeah! The episode of SVU with the orchestra conductor!</p>
<p>Emerald, you are fortunate to live in the land of no tolls. Being from the west, I had never been on a toll road in my life till moving to the glorious midwest. There may be a few LA or Texas toll roads these days, but from what I know, they start in the vicinity of Chicago, and then one can travel on toll roads clear to NY. </p>
<p>But the EZ pass is state based. I am the proud owner of one for Illinois, though realized I may be done with it…no more college drives through Chicagoland.</p>
<p>3bm103, the desire for privacy (at least in most individuals) has nothing to do with having “something to hide” and everything to do with the desire to control one’s own life, to determine whether or not EVERYTHING that can be known about you is readily available. Would you want your medical records to be freely disseminated among whichever parties deems them to be their business, for whatever reason? Would you want anyone at all to be able to precisely pinpoint your physical location at any time, and for whatever reason? I wouldn’t. And it isn’t because I’m up to no good. Just because technology makes such a thing available, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.</p>
<p>If tomorrow, a startling breakthrough in technology suddenly allowed your employer, the government, or law enforcement to “read your thoughts” without your consent, would it only be a bad thing for people who “have something to hide”?</p>
<p>honestly, WHO CARES who knows what exit you got off on the turnpike? It’s one of those tiny little things that shouldn’t matter. </p>
<p>If someone is dumb enough to be cheating on their wife/husband then they deserve to be caught using their EZ pass… or any other method.</p>
<p>It’s the same thing as the husband and wife having a joint checking account and the husband withdrawing money at a jewelry store to buy stuff for the woman he is cheating with.</p>
<p>or the same thing as the husband and wife sharing an e-mail account and the husband using it to e-mail the woman he is cheating with.</p>
<p>Something both parties have access to that keeps a log of what they’re doing.</p>
<p>EZ pass works the same way, just with tolls instead of money or e-mail.</p>
<p>I agree with Poetsheart. It’s not just family members knowing who is doing what, and it’s not just an issue for people breaking the law.</p>
<p>It may look like a matter of just knowing where you’ve been (what exit I took yesterday), but it’s also a matter of anonymous government and non-government entities knowing where you are.</p>
<p>The erosion of privacy looks benign in small increments, but the big picture should make everyone pause, unless you think that people of less than good will can never get positions of importance in our country, whether it be within or outside of government.</p>
<p>And, I’d like to repeat PH’s rhetorical question…how do you feel about implanted tracking chips, should they be made available. As noted, they could save your life, or your child’s. Any taker’s? And if not, why not?</p>
<p>I think I’d consider an implanted chip. Of course, my DDs were mortified when I suggested it for them after a string of missing college coeds. </p>
<p>I like the technology that allows authorities to track the “ping” on a cell phone to locate people like the bouncer who murdered the girl in NYC last year. </p>
<p>As for EZPass, I wouldn’t be without it. I use it for parking at the airport, too.</p>
<p>What airports take it for parking?</p>