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TomTom apologies for giving customer driving data to cops
- 6_Hellos 16y ago“We never foresaw this kind of use and many of our clients are not happy about it,” REALLY? You never foresaw clients not being happy about it??
- burgerbrain 16y agoReread that quote. It is not saying what you think it is saying.
- wladimir 16y agoIt's indeed not what people gave permission for "use this data to improve the service" is not: "sell to third parties and the government". But at least they gave only anonymized, statistical data to the police, so they knew where a lot of people are speeding and could post there. I'd have been outraged if they had passed individual customer data so the police could send traffic tickets after-the-fact. But that's luckily not the case.
- joelhaasnoot 16y agoOther news sources here in the Netherlands have also reported that it wasn't neccesarily direct info about individual users. A traffic analysis bureau created reports on this data for road management authorities, and the reports combined with accident data was were used to set speed traps.
- jhawk28 16y agoThis is the flip side of radar detecters. Its not like they are giving personalized information on a specific person.