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Interesting. Personally I'm not interested in supporting a company that would do such a thing.
This whole thing is blown out of proportion. TomTom provides statistical data to certain companies/agencies (for money). It's not like it says Mr.X drove 70mph at that 60mph road on 1/1/2011 12:32. It says that x drivers did 50-60 en y drivers did 60-65 z drivers did 65-99. Or something like that.
The 'problem' was that the police is using the data to decide where to place speedtraps.
The newspapers always jumps on 'news' like this and they like to print big headings screaming 'TomTom passes speeding info to police' which is true in a very basic sense, but the nuance is only provided in a single line somewhere at the end of the article. A good journalist knows the difference between the heading (ie what is perceived by the general public) and what is actually the case. They intentionally hide it a bit so that the story is a bit juicier.
Orson Wells would be so proud of society today.
Mo
They don't want your driving patterns personally. Nobody's interested in that, it would be just too much information. It's statistical information, so groups of drivers. I bet there's not even a distinction in cars/trucks/motorcycles.If LE want my driving patterns they can call me and I'll gladly tell them how I observe all speed limits.
It's a feature of the system, called HD traffic. TT collects the data, and you know this because they tell you that that's how the system works. You also have to give permission to send data back to TT.And how did TomTom obtain this data? Did customers send in their track logs from the GPS unit or, did TomTom 'pull' the data without the knowledge of the GPS user? If the second, how did they do it?