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Here you go. They are doing something like this in Maryland on I-95 and using the cover of conducting surveys.
Wow!
But just a few miles up I-95, Maryland authorities recently weathered criticism for what some residents regarded as an buse of their privacy. On Sept. 27, officials identified 26,500 Maryland
motorists using I-95, and then sent those people letters asking where they were going that day, why and with whom as part of a mass transit survey.
"We were trying to determine demographic information to determine the number of stops" needed along a new high-speed rail line between Washington and Baltimore, says Frank
Fulton of the Maryland Mass Transit Administration. "We didn't want to collect any personal or private
information."
But that wasn't the perception. "Quite a few motorists thought
Maryland crossed the line" by identifying them, says Mantill Williams of the American Automobile Association. "There is a broad
constitutional right for motorists to lawfully travel across the United States without police or governmental interference. I suppose the question becomes, 'What do you consider interference."
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