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The ambitious project of one radio frequency identification (RFID) smart tag for all toll plazas across the country is likely to be tested on Delhi-Chandigarh stretch on NH-1 and this would be done on pilot basis. S The RFID based single tag for all tolled roads will be rolled out across the country by 2013. The RFID tag promises to improve vehicle clearance at toll plazas that often experience major traffic snarls since most of the vehicles use cash lanes. The new tags will come cheaper and are likely to shift most of the cash land users to tag users. "You have no option than to go for a technology that will improve traffic flow at toll plazas

On Wednesday, acting Chief Justice of the high court AK Sikri, while hearing an unrelated case, had asked traffic police to desist from publishing names and photographs of violators on its social networking site as it involved breach of privacy. The court had said that it "may take cognizance" of such action in future.

NEW DELHI: The government has asked telecom operators and internet service providers (ISPs) to install indigenously developed monitoring equipment, in a move aimed at increasing surveillance of internet traffic. Post installation, the cost of which will have to be borne by operators, the equipment produced by state-owned research agency C-DoT will be manned by the government's security agencies.

In a six-month period - from August 31, 2009, to February 28, 2010, Deutsche Telekom had recorded and saved his longitude and latitude coordinates more than 35,000 times. It traced him from a train on the way to Erlangen at the start through to that last night, when he was home in Berlin. Spitz has provided a rare glimpse - an unprecedented one, privacy experts say - of what is being collected as we walk around with our phones. Unlike many online services and websites that must send "cookies" to a user's computer to try to link its traffic to a specific person, cellphone companies simply have to sit back and hit "record"