This New Report Confirms Everything You Suspected About E-ZPass
Although E-ZPass has been around for a while, drivers always have had the option of using coins or bills to pay the toll. That is changing in Massachusetts, which is replacing all human toll connectors on the Massachusetts Turnpike with E-ZPass.
“The 'government' is going to be able to track private citizens,” Massachusetts State Senator Robert Hedlund, a Republican, told the Boston Herald. “This is absolutely going to be a privacy issue for my constituents.”
E-ZPass readers are already being used to track vehicle movements in New York, the ACLU says. It discovered that dozens of E-ZPass readers had been set up all over New York City, far from toll booths, in order to track movement through the city.
“New documents obtained by the New York Civil Liberties Union reveal that wireless E-ZPass tollbooth transponders are being read routinely throughout New York City to systematically collect location data about drivers,” an ACLU report said.
A privacy expert designed a device that “mooed” every time “it detected signals on the same frequency that E-ZPass readers use,” the ACLU report said.” It “mooed” throughout Manhattan, even though no toll booths were around.
An E-ZPass unit is a wireless device mounted inside a vehicle that an electronic toll reader “reads.” The signal tells a computer system that a car is driving on a toll road or in a toll lane. The system then bills the driver or owner of the car for driving on the turnpike or in the fast lanes. Most systems have monthly plans.
The ACLU used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain more data on the readers in New York. The organization learned that New York City and the New York State Department of Transportation had set up 149 E-ZPass readers around the city in an attempt to determine traffic volumes. The ACLU also discovered that similar programs are in place in other parts of New York State.
The ACLU found that 'government' officials tried to keep the readers secret and did not have privacy protections. There are no rules in place for how long the data can be stored or even what can be done with it, the ACLU said.
Privacy experts in Massachusetts are concerned that the same thing could happen in their state.
“They’re not using encryption, so unbeknownst to most E-ZPass users, the tag can be read from almost anywhere,” cybersecurity expert Gary Miliefsky told the Boston Herald. “Hackers could easily read your number from your car and make their own pass using your account number.”
Miliefsky says hackers could steal financial information or make fake E-Z passes that would enable crooks to drive free on the toll road by using someone else’s number. The unsuspecting motorist would then get the bill.
E-ZPass and similar systems are being used all over the country in an attempt to raise money by state highway departments. A similar system recently was installed on special lanes on Interstate 70 through Colorado’s mountains.
The best way not to be monitored through E-ZPass is to simply put the device in the glove compartment when you are not driving on the toll road, Miliefsky advised. The device can only be read when it is within sight of a reader.
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1 comment:
Oh please.
EZ Pass users are registering their cars.
They are not private, because they put their property into the public records and consent to be tracked and billed when using the road to go to the grocery store or even to visit a friend or go to a hospital or doctor appointment.
Now truck drivers 'have to' register their trucks. It may belong to the company they work for, and it may belong to them but they are using their property on the road more than private people. They use it on the road to conduct business and make money and have a list of places to go, or a list of things to pick up or deliver. EZ Pass tracks where they were, where they went, and maybe where they are.
There are cars with long antennas, we have no idea what they pick up, cell phones, microchipped pets, EZ Pass tags. We have no idea.
But realize, this is stuff people are agreeing to and it's plain stupid to get mad about something you are agreeing to.
When we didn't know, it made sense cause we were mad and didn't know.
Now that the information is being revealed, by them!, for cosmic and spiritual reasons they are letting us know, there is no karmic effect on them if you do it anyway, and there IS a karmic effect on you, if you hurt them because you are mad, you do something you know you are doing.
They have turned the tables and reduced their sin cup from runneth over to over flow toward just full.
There are those who are letting their sin cup remain full by not consenting and watching what the ones who are minions do to compel consent when they have no power to do that. None!
Then people who consent are nothing to worry about. At most, those people will play victim, be weak, remain in fear, and do exactly as they are told like a trained pet. Nothing to worry about.
Anyone that can read, can read the code. Read the definitions. If a definition says a person is a desktop heater, would you think the code referred to you? No man can make another man do anything by force, but they have free reign to get you to permit things to happen to you by your own ignorance, and acceptance of the power 'you gave them', but you thought they already had.
A person is a brick and morter store. Is that you? A person has to have a drivers license to conduct commerce on the public highways. Is that what you do, engage in commerce, transport goods, and products, are you a human trafficker and transport people for profit?
Going to work, do you make money in some business between where you left and when you arrived to work? If not, then you are not in commerce but you ARE using the public highway to get where you need to go. You sure can't travel across people's private property to get there, so you have to use the public highway, which is there for public use.
Incidental use is not regulated, and just because a costumed crusader sees you, doesn't mean you are in commerce, you are in the public, and he sees you, but he can't MAKE you be in commerce unless he has evidence you are transporting something for profit or have a delivery list like a supply vendor or a pizza driver or an electric utility worker, who HAS to be somewhere at a specific time to provide a service, deliver a good, pick up merchandise, etc.
A doctor has a license but when he's going to the grocery store, he's not using his doctor's license. He could very well leave it at home if he had some other form of id.
The driver's license is used for id, unless and until it is used to 'drive'. You need one to rent a car, commandeer a houseboat, ride a ski-doo on a lake, be in control of a boat with a motor on a lake.
The code is specific. So specific, it does not mention things that are real, like an engine. It mentions motor on purpose. It does that so YOU can consent to be in something with a motor, instead of knowing you are not.
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