Comments on: A Pass on Privacy?

By: Modulator

Modulator — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:59:29 +0000

Privacy, Why Worry? James Joyner finds this NYT article "interesting if somewhat chilling" and then goes on to say that he's pretty much bought into the idea of feeding the maw of the information brokers:I make all manner of similar choices. For example, I use credit c...

By: Scott in CA

Scott in CA — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:43:41 +0000

WE have FastPass here in the SF Bay Area, for the Bay Bridge from Oakland to San Francisco. A few weeks ago, some guy wrote a letter to the paper saying he was cancelling his pass because "the government" could keep track of when he went into San Francisco. Whoop de doo. Who gives a crap? Everything we do is tracked. Every ATM transaction. Every debit card hit. Every credit card. Every website. Every purchase that's linked to a card we hold. If you're that worried about it, pay the hooker in cash and use cash to buy porn at the local XXX store.

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:26:56 +0000

'Try telling that to the drivers who drive daily into NYC in the Holland Tunnel.'

OK - it is optional

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:17:44 +0000

it's optional if you're only an occasional user of the toll system. Try telling that to the drivers who drive daily into NYC in the Holland Tunnel. I tried to get use the cash lane on a saturday and it took me almost an hour to get to the booth, meanwhile the EZpass lanes were wide open. That made me decide to get the EZpass for future trips into NYC.

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:11:01 +0000

EZPass is of course optional

By: John S Bolton

John S Bolton — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:12:13 +0000

The people who get upset over this are the ones who want freedom for aggression, most likely. those who want freedom from aggression, will not be agitated about the possibility of the government collecting information; there have always been so many ways of doing that. It is the aggressors and their advocates who have to fear the witness.

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:49:23 +0000

Your use of the EZ Pass can be used to track your movement. Last year a Baltimore DA was murdered in Pennsylvania and the police examined his movements before his death and notice strange trips he took by examining his EZ pass records. Certainly if I were paranoid about not wanting someone to know my movements I wouldn't be using the EZ Pass. I'll be with the rest of the paranoids in the cash lane.

By: Diane C. Russell

Diane C. Russell — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:48:20 +0000

Big Brother IS watching us--and the very people who were hoorified by Orwell's vision a generation ago are now doing everything they can to make it happen.