E-ZPass scanners track cars far away from toll plazas

Posted: Sep 19, 2013 8:10 PM CSTThursday, September 19, 2013 10:10 PM EST

Updated: Sep 20, 2013 10:29 AM CST Friday, September 20, 2013 12:29 PM EST

By JOEL WALDMAN, @joelwaldmanfox5

Sorry , I couldn’t get the embed code to paste properly, Damn Fox News.  Watch VIDEO at this link.

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/23481151/e-zpass-scanners-track-cars-far-away-from-toll-plazas

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/23481151/e-zpass-scanners-track-cars-far-away-from-toll-plazas?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9326974

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -

One man who wants to remain anonymous posted a video showing himself driving around Manhattan with a device on his dashboard that makes a cow mooing sound signaling that your privacy is being compromised by something sitting right in your own car: your E-ZPass tag.

In a blog, the driver says he rigged this “cow” so it would go off whenever E-ZPass technology was being used. You can see for yourself: it’s going off in the middle of New York City, nowhere near a toll plaza.

These contraptions, which reportedly went up citywide over the last few months on traffic lights, are what are reading your E-ZPass tag.

Former NYPD sergeant and FBI agent Manny Gomez says the technology is great if you’re in his world:  intelligence.

But the former head of NYCLU, Norman Siegel, says there are big questions about what is being done with the information in the name of security.

The New York City Department of Transportation admits the scanners belong to the department, but insist they are for studying traffic patterns.

“E-ZPass readers have been used for more than a decade to provide transportation agencies, the public and news services with vital information about real-time traffic conditions,” the DOT said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/23481151/e-zpass-scanners-track-cars-far-away-from-toll-plazas#ixzz2fX6PpQAG

too bad a suspicious spouse can’t use this technology to keep track of their promiscuous partner.  I bet Cheaters could use this too.