I can understand that, although keep in mind that they're not actually *preventing* anybody from doing anything, just making it somewhat more expensive if you're not signed up. (Although nothing like as insanely expensive as going through an EZPass lane without a transponder used to be.)

Still not a trivial consideration, granted, and I agree about the surveillance state, but in practice I suspect it's not much worse in that respect than it has been for some years already...