NYC Officials Won't Say What These Mystery Towers Are For ...Nor, will they say what data they are collecting on everyone who crosses into or out of the big city. With these towers, privacy doesn't exist… is that the big secret?

According to CBS2 in New York, facial recognition software may have been installed into new pylon towers, along with advanced cameras and radiation detectors, equipment used to track toll charges and all vehicles crossing bridges or tunnels in New York.

These features are evident, but not confirmed, by the Metropolitan Transportation Agency in New York, in large part due to the murky relationship with Homeland Security, who considers it a major security installation: