http://www.gothamist.com/2005/11/15/metrocard_news.php All comments for Metrocard News: Police Monitoring, Illegal Sales, Discounts en-us 2007 nyc_daveh Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:32:49 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss daveh@gothamist.com daveh@gothamist.com 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/11/15/metrocard_news.php#comment-82762 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/11/15/metrocard_news.php#comment-82762 Comments Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:20:28 -0500 <p>For all the overblown hysteria about things like the Patriot Act, this is a good example of how citizens surrender their privacy and subject themselves to alarming levels of government monitoring voluntarily in the name of convenience. If a U.S. administration suggested monitoring New Yorkers' exact transit patterns, some would scream bloody murder and invasion of privacy. Yet, it's something a lot of NYers submit to without a second thought for the convenience of paying for an unlimited card with a credit or debit card instead of cash. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/11/15/metrocard_news.php#comment-82727 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/11/15/metrocard_news.php#comment-82727 Comments Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:45:04 -0500 <p>A "significant thank-you" would be to instead fix up some stations that really need fixing instead of a practicaly useless "discount" which is only being done to try to make the MTA look good.</p>