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Author: Chester
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:27
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my picture be taken? Just the thought of having my picture in the Police
*   Department makes me uncomfortable.
*   
*   Another student [NBC TV] said "They've ruined my high school memories that
*   the yearbook represented. When I see my yearbook now, that's all I think
*   about."
*   
*   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a former Federal Prosecutor, said the yearbooks
*   had no constitutional protection. "Too bad. It's not illegal," he said
*   at a City Hall news conference on NY1 TV.


What is this?

*   "E-Z Pass Living Up To Its Name", By Jane Gross, NYT, 3/25/1997
*   
*   570,000 people have decided to use the new E-Z Pass system for commuting
*   tolls. Lanes are being switched over to accept only the E-Z Pass.
*   
*   Under a five-state, 10-agency consortium agreement, E-Z Pass will work
*   from Buffalo to Baltimore. [NY, NJ, PA, MD, DE]
*   
*   Users receive a minutely itemized statement each month on their trips.
*   
*   The E-Z Pass is a transponder people put in their windshield.
*   
*   Concerns about privacy were met with assurances that information about
*   commuters' whereabouts would be released only under court subpoena.

People are buying the transponders because they eliminated the regular
discount tokens and moved the discount availability to E-Z Pass.

Wow.

It does have a kind-of Singapore feel to it...being able to track cars.

Well, it's not like they're going to go nutcake and
install a monitoring grid over the entire metropolis.

They wouldn't do that, right?

:   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
:   
:   In New York City, the FBI spent millions of dollars to install a permanent
:   "fully-functional real-time physical tracking network."
:   
:   It should come as no surprise that the FBI did not announce this addition
:   to its investigative bag of tricks: 


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