Big Brother is Watching You On Public Transportation

Boston Herald reports:

Soon it will track your movements and record your comings and goings in a vast government database.
The CIA? The NSA?
Nope, the MBTA.
Over the coming year, the T will install automated fare collection equipment at every subway station and on every bus, allowing riders to pay easily with taps of special smart cards in their names.
But each transaction with the plastic CharlieCards will be recorded electronically, creating a record of where users were at a particular time on a particular day. Those records could be subpoenaed by cops, courts or even lawyers in civil cases.

Boston.