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Could Your Freeway Pass Soon Be Used to Film You? You Might Be Surprised

  • Kapsch Traffic Com AG, a transponder (i.e., E-Z Pass and IPass) manufacturer, filed a patent for technology to include  an inward and outward pointing camera.
  • Technology is not necessarily going to be created.
  • If it were, it would be used to monitor HOV lanes.
  • Kapsch signed a 10 year contract to provide transponders for 22 toll systems in the United States.
  • Kapsch transponders can be found in 41 countries and 64 million cars worldwide.

Kapsch TrafficCom AG Files Patent for Camera Technology in EZ Pass, iPassFirst, it was OnStar tracking users even after subscription to the service was canceled — which they since pulled back on. Now, there’s a patent filed for an in-car device that would be used for monitoring purposes.

MSNBC reports that Kapsch TrafficCom AG, an Austrian company that creates transponders like E-Z Pass, which allows cars to breeze through tolls, filed a patent for technology that would include cameras in such devices. Cameras would point inside the car as well as out:

The stated reason for an inward-pointing camera is to verify the number of occupants in the car for enforcement of HOV and HOT lanes. The outward-pointing camera could be used for the same purpose, helping authorities enforce minimum occupant rules against drivers who aren’t carrying transponders.

But it’s easy to imagine other uses.  The patent says the transponders would have the ability to store and transmit pictures, either at random intervals or on command from a central office. It would be tempting to use them as part of a search for a lost child, for example, and law enforcement officials might find the data treasure trove irresistible.  The gadget could also be instructed to take pictures when the acceleration of a car “exceeds a threshold,” or when accidents occur, so it could be used like an airplane cockpit flight recorder.

Kapsch TrafficCom AG Files Patent for Camera Technology in EZ Pass, iPass

If a transponder including cameras were to be created, its said function would be to catch those violating HOV rules.

Right now, police officers wait at entrances and exits to highways with HOV lanes, pulling over violators. Monitoring these highways takes time and money.

Even still, the manufacturer, which just signed a 10-year contract to provide transponders to 22 toll collection systems, notes that this is just a patent stage protecting the idea, not that they will go through with making it. And MSNBC reports that P.J. Wilkins, executive director of the E-Z Pass Group consortium, as saying he didn‘t know of the company’s camera idea.

Although this may provide some consolation, MSNBC includes the not-so-comfortable snowball effect should similar devices be developed:

And while it’s possible cameras-in-cars technology would be a non-starter in America, that doesn‘t mean Americans shouldn’t be worried, said Lee Tien, a privacy expert with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

“I think (drivers) should be pretty concerned,” he said. “You want to make sure any use of that technology is very carefully regulated. People should let the E-Z Pass folks know now what they think about any possible plans to introduce cameras in their cars, now, while it’s being developed, rather than before it’s already a fait accompli, and some agency says it‘s already spent millions on it and can’t turn back now.”

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“You could imagine that they could limit the capacity of devices  — say the images would be destroyed after a very short period of time — so it would not be as powerful a surveillance device. But that’s not the general dynamic,” he said. “Once you have the device out there, someone says, ‘Why not use it for this, or that.‘ That’s usually where the battle between privacy and other social goals is lost.”

An actual IPass user on the Slashdot discussion board expresses his concerns about the patent and infringement of privacy:

“I received a form letter from the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority saying that my first-generation ‘IPASS’ transponder needs to be replaced because the battery is old. I called them for clarification since the first-generation transponders obviously have user-replaceable batteries, and I wanted to keep this version because it beeps when a toll is paid. (This notifies drivers that their battery is still good, unlike the silent second-generation version, which informs them of a dead battery by sending a ticket in the mail.) The woman on the phone explained that they were replacing them just because the electronics are old. This uninformed answer made me research the device. I found that the manufacturer has recently filed a patent application for a new transponder that has a camera in it — a camera pointed inward at the occupants. How long before they make it illegal to cover that camera with tape?”

E-Z Pass customers have been concerned with tracking before, even though the company says it doesn’t use the device for tracking purposes. But to help quell complaints it did release an anonymous version.

Wilkins states, according to MSNBC, that Americans shouldn’t be concerned about E-Z Pass tracking when cell phones companies already admit to tracking customers.

But maybe that means they should worry more.

Comments (128)

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  • TheLeftMadeMeRight
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:25pm

    I live in the country on a farm, I’ll buy a horse. And I’ll tell you where they can mount the I-Pass…

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:30pm

      I’m green!

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    • Pujols
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:57am

      I give My middle finger when ever I go under one. Just in case they are looking.

      STAND UP NOW OR WE WILL ALL BE ON OUR KNEES!

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    • Cat
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:16am

      Driving through a tollbooth one day, and while handing the gatekeeper the required fee to pass, a VW bug was slowly going through the PASS lane.
      The rear widow had two butts in it …

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    • Susie Liberty
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:25pm

      Is EXACTLY the way I feel about the “Observers/Enforcers”! Watched the debate/vote on the extension of the initially Bush-Pushed UNPatriotic Act last spring…and after Feintein finished her litany of secret warrants obtained thru a secret court for secret reasons which could result in an unannounced search of our homes by Fed Agents…with their taking anything they chose…and we couldn‘t tell anyone they’d been there, not even our own Personal Atty… and this Taking of our Freedoms and Liberty guaranteed under Our Constitution done for the Govt‘s pledge to ’protect us’.

      And I SCREAMED at the TV! “BUT WHO IS GOING TO PROTECT US FROM OUR GOVERNMENT?!”

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:28am

      The COPs Think We Are Stupid.

      They want to photograph everyone but they will kill people trying to photograph the police. People attending TEA are always being photographed. The Government now wants all car manufacturers to be required to install cameras in new cars. To prevent domestic violence and child abuse at home, the Government will mandate cameras in our homes very soon. The technology is available and the Government will use it with the blessing of the courts.

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  • TheLeftMadeMeRight
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:24pm

    “You want to make sure any use of that technology is very carefully regulated”

    THE PEOPLE DOING THE “REGULATION” ARE THE ONES I’M MOST AFRAID OF!

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:30pm

      Amen! The thought of very careful regulations does not necessarily mean that they will be followed.
      Camera in ipass cards, how soon til they’re in other things too? The new driver’s licenses are scarey enough already, can you imagine if they install cameras in them. The only good point is that teens probably wouldn’t get away with fake ones to get into bars.

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    • christianUSA
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:54am

      Know tech well the best way to safe guard and regulate is not have devices installed even with these capacity! if it there it can and will be used!

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:40am

      I don’t like this. Nothing in our lives will will be private. This oversteps the boundaries of our rights to live in a free country. I don’t like the cameras that are set up now. It is another way to make more money for the counties and states. Big Brother is a big pain in the A- -!

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    • Susie Liberty
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:27pm

      My reply above wa intended to go to you THELEFTMADEMERIGHT…

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:37am

      Passenger seat occupancy is already recorded by the car’s computer. On newer cars this information is being transmitted to road side receivers. We cannot know exactly what information is being recorded while in our cars, but conversations within a car are probably already being recorded. It can be done by the police now through your cell phone. Since the cell phone is a radio, the police do not need a warrant to listen in through your cell phone.

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  • fidelcashflo44
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:19pm

    The hilarious typo in the title of this article aside, The Blaze really is turning into infowars but with a dumber following. Everyone involved in the operation, reporting and membership of this website are tragically stupid.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:54pm

      I know, that’s what makes it fun.

      Report Post » SimpleTruths  
    • Muddbog
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:14pm

      Dumb? Really? At least if everything Glenn Beck says is going to happen doesn’t I can say I was prepared. If being prepared is dumb, I guess I’m the dumbest of them all. At least I won’t be caught with my pants down when thing do happen! If you want to talk about dumb followings just look at the protests! All your comrades think they are helping America! LOL they are following like a herd of sheep and heading right for a cliff! I’m surprised you put you protest sign down long enough to type something on the Blaze! You do fit the mold for being a participant of the protests, your comments on this site and the Huffington post show exactly how far left you really are.

      Now, coming from “You” that everyone involved in the operation, reporting and membership of this website are tragically stupid, well for you to not believe in a supreme being sounds “tragically stupid” to me… I know you won‘t but I’m going to ask you to take 5 minutes sit there and come up with an educated answer to this question, since you are so much smarter… Where did Matter come from?

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    • Muddbog
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:16pm

      Oops I had a typo… I am sooooo Dumb!

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:32pm

      Also, it is just copying a report from MSNBC. I thought nothing that MSNBC reports is truthful since it is just run by communist, anarchist, racist, communist Muslims, anarchist black Muslims, and socialists.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:41pm

      Grow up.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:58pm

      FIDELCASHFLO44,

      I see that both you, and your posting pal SIMPLETONTRUTH, are perfectly suited for the N.W.O..
      You are both so smug in your lack of intellect.

      Are you posting from your laptops at “OCCUPY”?

      Rumor has it that you guys cleaned up some of the filth in the park today. Did you both pitch in and do your share?

      KUMBIYAH.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:38pm

      @Godfather.1
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:32pm
      Also, it is just copying a report from MSNBC. I thought nothing that MSNBC reports is truthful since it is just run by communist, anarchist, racist, communist Muslims, anarchist black Muslims, and socialists
      ***
      Been hearing it ALL my life; “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:45pm

      @Lucy Larue
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:58pm
      FIDELCASHFLO44,

      I see that both you, and your posting pal SIMPLETONTRUTH, are perfectly suited for the N.W.O..
      You are both so smug in your lack of intellect.

      Are you posting from your laptops at “OCCUPY”?

      Rumor has it that you guys cleaned up some of the filth in the park today. Did you both pitch in and do your share?

      KUMBIYAH
      ***
      It was heartwarming to see someone can actually clean up after themselves wasn’t it. Unforunately I need to get hold of he and his friends . NOTICE:’ I NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO SEND YOUR MAIL. WHEN YOUR FRIENDS AND HANDLERS SIMPLY ADDRESS IT TO “OCCUPANT” THE POST OFFICE MESSES UP AND MY NEIGHBORS AND I KEEP GETTING IT IN OUR MAILBOXES!!”

      Report Post » Mil Mom  
    • JEANNIEMAC
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:18am

      It seems you are an Alinsky “ridicule” troll.

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  • auntmoxie.com
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:16pm

    Edit needed in the headline: SurprisED. Past participle.

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  • ChuckHarding
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:58pm

    Here’s a thought – buy one of those el-cheapo laser pointers sold at pet stores as a cat toy. Position it so that the beam hits the camera lens. Tape the push button on the laser pointer down so it stays on while you are driving. The laser beam will saturate the camera element so all they would see is a big blob of light.

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    • Rob in Katy
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:08pm

      or you could put a bit of tape over the lens…

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    • loriann12
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 4:20pm

      OOOhhh, guess no more making out in your car…glad I don’t have to use a toll road.

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    • LANE131
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 8:05pm

      Bock the view of the camera with tape or laser or in whatever way, get a BIG fine, after all the goverment needs more of our money somehow.

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  • OklahomaBound
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:28pm

    When I lived in the Socialist Republic of Washington near Commieville (that’s Seattle) they had those HOV lanes on all the Interstates. Anytime I had to go near Seattle, or the area called the East Side, I actually would have to plan my trip to fall within the hours of 10am-2pm, a four hour window where you could actually get through the area without getting stuck in a traffic jam.

    Then 13 months ago I moved to Oklahoma City, a city that is very close in size, physically and in population, to Seattle and I was blown away with how I could drive the Highways here at any time of day, (other than before an OU Sooners game), even during commuter hours, and cruise along at 65-70mph. I kept wondering how this was possible, why was it different? Then I finally realized it was because there were no HOV lanes. I was now in a freedom loving capitalist conservative state, I no longer had a left-wing socialist government trying to dictate my driving habits to conform with their ideology, I was actually free to drive on every lane I paid for and as a result traffic jams no longer were part of my life. Thank you Red State Oklahoma!

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    • fatjason83
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:56pm

      I could not agree more! I live in the roaring fork valley of Colorado near Aspen, and they have an HOV lane (on the left with only 2 lanes each direction no less!) and it creates more accidents and traffic jams than one can imagine. It is to ‘encourage’ drivers to take the bus. The bus system is subsidized by vehicle registrations (who are not utilizing the service!). The other kicker is, all of these busses (paid for, yet not utilized by me)in the HOV lanes (once again, paid with my taxpayer dollars) are running the 35+ miles up and down the valley with 5-10 people in them total! Yet, they feel they need more busses (to be paid for by tax increases). I am so tired of a select few in our corrupt government telling me what is good for me. These priveleged few don’t need to consider families with small children or busy schedules may not use the bus as it is BEYOND INCONVENIENT AND MORE EXPENSIVE THAN DRIVING MY OWN VEHICLE!!!!

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    • Susie Liberty
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:59pm

      I read some time ago that OK had voted DOWN any massive superhighway/tollroads…and so much as said “NO!” to NAFTA…? Do you know anything about that?

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  • Slowman101
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:27pm

    Well, I guess if they add a camera to my EZ Pass here in New York, I am going to be in trouble. I will take a drill and drill out the lens for the camera. Forget the tape.

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    • UrbanCombatSurvivor
      Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:18am

      Don’t forget to look for the mic. If they’re taking video, they’re taking sound as well.

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:16pm

    Simple solution to inward cameras: it’s called black tape.

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:33pm

      I was thinking the same thing, I‘d put the tape on both lenses as long as covering the outward one didn’t interfere with recording payment of the toll. You could also just hold up the EZ Pass in the window when going under a toll scanner and then put it in your storage compartment during your drive until you needed to use it again going under the next scanner.

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    • Creg Maroney
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:24pm

      It will be against the law to cover up the cameras.
      George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5464625623984168940#

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  • ktywack
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:02pm

    Soo, there’s the camera angle. . . . what about when you drive over the speed limit between 2 tolls? The toll records the time you pass each one . . . . . next it will be automated speeding tickets. First they make us poor sheeples think that we can’t do without these tollways; which in Texas are practically the only new roads built during Gov. Perry’s reign, then they start tracking us and penalizing us for using them. What a wonderful world we live in!! They even have plans to turn the HOV lane on LBJ freeway into a Toll Lane – this is a public road and now they are taking lanes away from the people paying the taxes to build & repair it.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Yesterday, at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., attacked U.S. companies that do business with Iran, singling out Koch Industries, despite the fact that Tester has taken money from companies that also did business with Iran.

      “Recently I heard that one of America’s largest companies, Koch Industries, was in the business of supporting Iran through energy development. Um … if they are doing there are probably others that are doing it,” Tester said yesterday.

      Koch Industries issued the following statement in response to Tester’s statement:

      Koch Industries voluntarily decided several years ago to stop sales to Iran, which is the policy Senator Tester wants all U.S. companies to adopt. Our policy goes beyond what is required under U.S. law, which we urge Senator Tester, the DCCC, and the DSCC to notice. Senator Tester, while singling out Koch Industries as an example of a U.S. company that had done business in Iran through foreign subsidiaries, omitted the fact that he has accepted numerous campaign contributions from U.S. companies that are apparently either continuing to do business in Iran or that just recently stopped doing business in Iran.

      Koch is correct. Tester took $2000 from General Electric and $8000 from Honeywell this year. Both companies have had well established business relationships with Iran.

      Tester should clean his own house before trying to score cheap political points.

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    • Susie Liberty
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:56pm

      Yep – the Toll Roads in Texas are EVERYWHERE – and more being built as fast as possible. And yes, we pay a ‘highway maintenance tax’ for the older roads…once they’ve been built… Now, as in the just-had-a-thought – let‘s charge a TOLL on that 20yr old ’freeway’…

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  • SimpleTruths
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:57pm

    The Blaze sure knows how to get the tinfoil hat crowd worked up. Paranoid much?

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    • SusanBM
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:01pm

      The original transponder technology was invented by Hughes Aircraft Company in the late 1990′s and then sold to Lockheed. It has ALWAYS has the capability of taking photos of everyone in the car and much, murch, more. I know, I worked on the publicity for the transponders. We didn’t tell the public then, nor now, what they are capabile of simply because of the Big Brother image that would portray. They are most commonly used on toll roads and by the trucking industry now. Time entering the road, time leaving the road, photos of both car and passengers at both ends, the ability of even call for help while you are on the road. it is quite the technology if it were completely implemented. This is NOT new.

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    • ktywack
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:04pm

      Ha!! Read my earlier post. . . . paranoid translates to visionary ala Glenn Beck.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:07pm

      The left is famous for putting thier evil on the right
      Yesterday, at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., attacked U.S. companies that do business with Iran, singling out Koch Industries, despite the fact that Tester has taken money from companies that also did business with Iran.

      “Recently I heard that one of America’s largest companies, Koch Industries, was in the business of supporting Iran through energy development. Um … if they are doing there are probably others that are doing it,” Tester said yesterday.

      Koch Industries issued the following statement in response to Tester’s statement:

      Koch Industries voluntarily decided several years ago to stop sales to Iran, which is the policy Senator Tester wants all U.S. companies to adopt. Our policy goes beyond what is required under U.S. law, which we urge Senator Tester, the DCCC, and the DSCC to notice. Senator Tester, while singling out Koch Industries as an example of a U.S. company that had done business in Iran through foreign subsidiaries, omitted the fact that he has accepted numerous campaign contributions from U.S. companies that are apparently either continuing to do business in Iran or that just recently stopped doing business in Iran.

      Koch is correct. Tester took $2000 from General Electric and $8000 from Honeywell this year. Both companies have had well established business relationships with Iran.

      Tester should clean his own house before trying to score chea

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  • sWampy
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:54pm

    DAMN I HATE toll roads, refuse to visit states with them anymore, unless work forces me. Our corrupt ignorant liberal state legislature recently passed a law making them legal. If they start building them, I will move across the river to a state without them.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:00pm

      So you think roads should all be free and no one should have to pay for building them? Isn’t that called welfare?

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    • ktywack
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:07pm

      I think they use our taxes for that purpose . . . Federal, State, County, City…..maybe the Sales Tax & Property Tax as well . . . .what was that tax percentage that they were saying the average American pays???

      We are just Indentured Servants to The Government.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:11pm

      @simple

      No, it’s not called welfare, it’s called public works.

      Nice try though, tie every single government action to “welfare” or “socialism” then berate others who simply want traditional government services in place. In the old days, we called that sophistry.

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    • skypilot77
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:12pm

      “So you think roads should all be free and no one should have to pay for building them? Isn’t that called welfare?”

      No. It is called having already paid for the toll roads many times over. And the upkeep should be able to be paid for by the gas taxes — like all other roads.

      Toll roads simply create hack jobs which are paid for by the tolls. It is simply make work jobs.

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:14pm

      Hey SimpleTruths, or should I call you Simpleton, the roads are already paid for by gas taxes, adding a toll to the road is a double tax. Get a brain.

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    • AnotherNobody
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:17pm

      @SimpleTruths:

      Lots of folks will think I’m nuts, but why not make them private roads? Who says governments are efficient at building roads? I would argue otherwise from direct observation. Why is is a given that only governments are even able to fund and build roads?

      Incidentally, the Chinese government was caught installing surveillance electronics in their passes installed in cars entering from Hong Kong.

      http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china/chinese-spying-devices-installed-on-hong-kong-cars-57587.html

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    • PoliticalJunkieToo
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:09pm

      U.S. taxpayers pay a FORTUNE in taxes which are SPECIFICALLY supposed to go to road improvement.

      Too bad our politicians are using the money for building roads in the Middle East and supporting airports that have less than 20 flights a day.

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  • Uriel
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:43pm

    Uh, …. nobody heard of “black boxes” I take it.

    (oh, and if, like me, you thought you could buy a used car to avoid the “black box”, think again. They’ve been in most car makes for 5 to 7 years already.)

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:34pm

      Those, called EDR’s, only record the last 10 seconds of a crash, not point cameras into your car, nor track your car with GPS. Some delivery trucks have data loggers that will track speed, etc.

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    • Uriel
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 9:53am

      True, they don’t have cameras …. yet.
      As for the rest, ……you sure about that? Only the last 10 seconds? Only speed? And only in some trucks?

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:34pm

    EZPass? What is this EZPass you speak of? Don’t have one, don’t need one that I know of in Ohio (I don’t think the Ohio turnpike uses it, but I could be wrong).

    The way they’re jacking up cars with surveillance crap these days, pretty soon the only people left with privacy will be us V-Twin motorcycle riders. :)

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:37pm

      Or older cars. ‘71 Cuda rocks!

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    • mrzmac
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:00pm

      the ohio turnpike will accept the EZ pass…I live in Virginia, daughter use to have a twirling competition every year in Indiana…my EZ pass was accepted on the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana Turnpike. I have also used it in New York. I also think they are accepted in Florida…do not have mine any longer as I moved from Richmond to foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I use to laugh at my brother-in-law who refused to have any type of electronic payment system as he said they can be used to track your whereabouts…guess he wasn’t so far off from the truth.

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  • Eliasim
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:25pm

    Listening to Beck today I had to chuckle when he said their should be a “litmus” to have children. There used to be, and it’s called “liberty.” God would find his son a wife, and then the son would find “Man” spirit a wife, and the “Man” would guide his daughters and sons. I guess you can see just how much men’s idea of governments really stinks. They can’t help but corrupt the process.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:33pm

      Isn’t it amazing how people seem dumber than a box of rocks? There’s even simple little animals that mate for life. And how about the way most animals don’t have problems with even their teeth like people do? I guess that’s why when you forget about God they say your joints will ache.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:36pm

      So if you really think that God doesn’t care about the way men mistreat the earth, you should think again.

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    • mrzmac
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 9:04pm

      so our use of Earth’s resources are the cause of arthritis….REALLY?

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  • evilhatemonger
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:17pm

    Easy fix. Do away with ALL HOV lanes. If you don’t need to monitor the upper class lanes, then there is no need for the device. We all pay for the roads, why should all of the “lesser” drivers be herded into fewer lanes so a proud few can zip past after paying an additional fee. Free up ALL of the lanes so ALL drivers can use them.

    Or if you must have the device, just put some tape over the lenses.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:28pm

      HOV lanes are the brainchild of Big Government control commie tree huggers. I use them all the time when there is just a line and not a wall. I have never been caught in many years of driving. It ****** off enviromentalists I am sure. All I can say is nanananananana!!!!!

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    • The Giver
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 11:54pm

      Never had to pay “an additional fee” when I used the HOV lane in NY. High Occupancy Vehicle lanes were done to encourage carpools. It caused congestion in the other lanes… which made the cars emit more fumes longer and defeated the whole purpose of “SAVING” THE PLANET. GREEN -The biggest scam they’ve come up with in order to manipulate our lives. Truly like a watermelon…Green on the outside and RED on the inside.

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  • Dinkiecb
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:15pm

    don’t use cell phones.. don‘t have an ezpass the vehicle i own is a 60’s era doesn’t even have a radio in it… track MEEE i don‘t go anywhere unless they think i’m gonna take over the grocery store

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    • Susie Liberty
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 8:50pm

      I am such a cautious driver here in Big A and still, I did INDEED run a redlight…and the camera recorded the movement of the car, the light, and of course, my license plate. And interestingly, the signal lights are the LED and for a couple of them at this intricate intersection, they’re brightly colored, but two OTHERS are barely distinguishable as to what the heck color they are… Regardless, camera are indeed in place all over this city – and not just at red lights either. I’ve come to recognize them now…their placement…

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  • nocomment
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:07pm

    RAISE A STINK AMERICA… COMPLAIN LOUD AND CLEAR… ‘NO WAY’!

    Time to begin dismantling the Progressive infrastructure piece by piece. Yes that would include your local commute lanes and metering lights at on-ramps, to the over-reach regulations by the EPA, to restrictive State gun laws limiting our right to self-defense. And on and on…

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    • USAMama
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:20pm

      I use ez pass, if they tell me they have to give me a new device I’ll quit using it. I also noticed recently for the 1st time they started offering discounted tolls to ez pass users (nudge). Coincidence?

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    • Susie Liberty
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 9:06pm

      Well, there certainly have been some people who have complained LOUD about what’s happening to us… But sometimes, I think we may have a better handle on it than our Elected Officials, and they seem to ‘forget’ that ONE issue ‘might’ be related to ANOTHER. Regardless, with forty eleven dozen crises a week?

      I began to worry about Our Beloved America several years ago…but the rapid downhill trajectory has me feeling whiplashed..

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  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:06pm

    BIG BROTHER is a watch’n

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  • jzs
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:59pm

    You may not know it, but in some states EZ passes already have cameras. The information is transmitted ultimately to the government, presumably to look for terrorist. If you look closely you should be able to see the camera and put a peice of tape over it. To be safe, you may just want to tape over the whole thing, front and back.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:46pm

      Are you being serious?

      I know very little about EZ Pass except that I don’t have one and only see them when I drive through other states.

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  • momrules
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:58pm

    I remember stories about the T.V. watching us as we are watching it. Those stories don’t seem so far fetched now as it did then. Our every move is being monitored by someone, somewhere all the time now. Scarey isn’t it?

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    • Susie Liberty
      Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:48pm

      It IS scary… And someone replied to me re the UNPatriotic Act comment on another website some time ago, “Well, if you’re not doing anything wrong, why are you worried about it?!”

      I don’t believe the person was aware of the Freedoms and Liberty (and Privacy) guaranteed us under Our Constitution.

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  • This_Individual
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:57pm

    They’re going to be watching some funky stuff! :)

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  • Dougral Supports Israel
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:52pm

    I’m going to resist this stuff till the last. I don’t use EZ-PASS and if I were forced to I would creatively block or discombobulate any cameras in those devices. I don’t get tracked much on my cell phone either since I leave it off unless I want to make a call.

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    • Dinkiecb
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:12pm

      cell phone??? what’s that? i’m like the pot hole on the geico comercial.. i ain’t got no phone :)

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    • CanadaKen
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 3:27pm

      FBI admits to listening to cell phones even when turned off and tracking location every 7 seconds

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVNNekZpIvw

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    • M 4 Colt
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:00pm

      Dougral just an FYI for you, they can still track you with your cell phone turned OFF, the only way they can‘t track your cell phone is if you REMOVE THE BATTERY FROM THE PHONE otherwise the tracking part of your cell phone is still drawing power from the battery while it’s turned off and it will STILL PING off of cell towers so they can still track you.

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  • paulusmaximus
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:43pm

    Yea they will! Question, why do the call it a FREEWAY when you pay to use it? Must be a progressive thing sort of like free health care that you are forced to pay for.

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  • InterestingStuff
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:42pm

    Big brother is spying on everyone since the last election. I learned more than I bargained for after watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CTNSAc_IU

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on October 14, 2011 at 2:38pm

      What utter rubbish. Conspiracry theorists chase their tails and bay at the moon….

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:37pm

    “1984”.. brought to you by the Democrat/Socialist/Communist/Progressive/Facist Party of America. Enjoy!

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