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cost it another
*   $168 million.

Wow.

They are hurting for money, yet spent $700 million on it to offer discounts?

They aren't expecting to monitor individual users, like in Singapore, are they?

Let's see...they don't print them up in advance, so they can't be stolen.

But each token booth has a video camera, which, if synchronized time-wise
would yield a picture to associate with each card.

They wouldn't use 'machine vision' to identify people, would they?

They would never take our picture from a video camera and use it for a
completely different surveillance purpose, would they?

*   "Police Use of Yearbooks Draws Protest From the Schools"
*   By Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times, March 28 1997
*   
*   A storm of protest burst yesterday around a Police Department memo that
*   orders every detective squad in New York City to collect yearbooks from
*   the high schools and junior high schools in its precinct as an aid in
*   investigations.
*   
*   For mugshots.
*   
*   Lionel Oglesby, 15, of Brooklyn, a sophomore at Washington Irving High
*   School in Manhatten, said, "If I haven't done anything wrong, why should
*   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,