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  • Hey Guys, TomTom Is Sharing Your Data Too

    29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Tech/Sci, Very Cool, Vibe, World
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    And you thought it was just Apple and Google! Gosh. TomTom has admitted that its satellite navigation devices can track users and report to third parties about how fast they’re going – like the police, for instance. Your TomTom is a speed camera now.

    TomTom, who presumably admitted to the data-sharing to avoid the finger-wagging that Apple and Google are currently undergoing, claims that the data is anonymous and can’t be traced back to individual users – but then again, Apple was playing the same tune not too long ago, but take that with some salt.

    Says Crave:

    “The good news here, for the paranoid drivers among us, is it’s possible to opt out of the data-collection feature on TomTom’s Live sat-navs. This rather defeats the object though — if everyone with a TomTom Live sat-nav opted out, there’d be no Live data to help users avoid traffic blackspots and you’ll have wasted your money by splashing out on a high-end GPS system.”

    Yay future.

    [Source: Crave]

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