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I-Pass has a new role: I spy
Marketed as a congestion-fighting instrument on the tollways, I-Pass has taken on another role in recent years: an investigative tool in crime probes, administrative proceedings and even a divorce.
Since early 2000, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority has fielded at least 10 subpoenas from private lawyers and public agencies looking for I-Pass records of certain drivers, according to documents obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. [...]
A Joliet man believed his wife was cheating on him, but that wasn't why he decided to have his divorce attorney subpoena the toll authority for her I-Pass records.
"There was a child custody thing going on, and I wanted to prove that she was never home ... because she was working," the man said. "Her I-Pass records would show when and where she was driving.