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E-ZPass Records Used to Track Individuals

A woman accused of killing her husband was convicted after New Jersey prosecutors reconstructed her movements. Investigators pieced together the driving route of a missing Baltimore federal prosecutor who later turned up dead. Prosecutors in a New York City murder trial discredited a suspect's alibi. A key factor in these and other cases: E-ZPass, the electronic toll payment system that records when and where the vehicles in question traveled.

E-ZPass records make way into criminal and civil trials, Boston Globe, September 2, 2007.