TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police.
blazee
04-28-2011, 02:24 PM
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It appears every gadget in your possession is tracking your location. First it was the iPhone, then Android phones and now it's your bleedin' sat-nav. TomTom, perhaps in a pre-emptive strike against its own user-tracking scandal, has admitted its sat-navs can track users and inform third parties about how fast they're going.
The sat-navs in TomTom's Live range all feature built-in 3G data cards, which feed location and route information back to a central server, which allows TomTom to create a map of congestion hotspots. It's now emerged that this data, however, along with a user's speed, is being made available to local governments and authorities.
Read more: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/tomtom-admits-to-sending-your-routes-and-speed-information-to-the-police-50003618/
It appears every gadget in your possession is tracking your location. First it was the iPhone, then Android phones and now it's your bleedin' sat-nav. TomTom, perhaps in a pre-emptive strike against its own user-tracking scandal, has admitted its sat-navs can track users and inform third parties about how fast they're going.
The sat-navs in TomTom's Live range all feature built-in 3G data cards, which feed location and route information back to a central server, which allows TomTom to create a map of congestion hotspots. It's now emerged that this data, however, along with a user's speed, is being made available to local governments and authorities.
Read more: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/tomtom-admits-to-sending-your-routes-and-speed-information-to-the-police-50003618/
jon@af
04-28-2011, 05:54 PM
Kind of makes me miss the days of rotary phones and writing letters to people.
Really.
Really.
speediva
04-28-2011, 06:36 PM
It was only a matter of time... :(
Now I'll just have to "exceed posted speed limits" at times when I know where I'm going. ;)
Now I'll just have to "exceed posted speed limits" at times when I know where I'm going. ;)
drunken monkey
05-01-2011, 08:59 AM
Kind of makes me miss the days of rotary phones and writing letters to people.
Really.
A friend of mine moved recently and was internet-less for about a week and he went on about not being able to contact anyone.
A little piece of my soul died hearing that.
Really.
A friend of mine moved recently and was internet-less for about a week and he went on about not being able to contact anyone.
A little piece of my soul died hearing that.
tonioseven
05-26-2011, 03:56 AM
Technology sucks sometimes. :(
Muscletang
05-27-2011, 12:50 PM
Fascist!
Hungrycat7
05-27-2011, 06:16 PM
The beast has been unleashed and there is no stopping it!
danielsatur
05-27-2011, 07:33 PM
Tom Tom is a waste of money, if you got a Droid with some good Apps!
speediva
05-29-2011, 09:07 AM
Tom Tom is a waste of money, if you got a Droid with some good Apps!
It's only a matter of time before that starts sending "little love notes" to the police about your speed and location. States with turnpike passes have been doing this kind of thing for ages just using the basic D=RT formula to recognize when someone had to violate posted speed limits.
It's only a matter of time before that starts sending "little love notes" to the police about your speed and location. States with turnpike passes have been doing this kind of thing for ages just using the basic D=RT formula to recognize when someone had to violate posted speed limits.
danielsatur
05-29-2011, 08:55 PM
Wait until there's a CLLI on your lic plate, were a laser could read it from a mile and turn your car off when being bad.
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