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TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police.
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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.
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Re: TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police.
Kind of makes me miss the days of rotary phones and writing letters to people.

Really.
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Re: TomTom admits to sending your routes and speed information to the police.
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.
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Kind of makes me miss the days of rotary phones and writing letters to people.

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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.
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Technology sucks sometimes.
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The beast has been unleashed and there is no stopping it!
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Tom Tom is a waste of money, if you got a Droid with some good Apps!
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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.
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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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