Originally Posted By: 7point82
One case in point is TomTom selling speed data to police. I understand that TomTom could clean the data (if needed) in order to make it impossible to track back to an individual. I also suspect that a significant percentage of TomTom users are surprised that this data was even captured, let alone reported back to TomTom and eventually sold.
I gather it is a feature of those devices that they give live reports on traffic congestion by spotting when users get stuck in traffic. Obviously that involves feeding data back to TomTom.

The police weren't using the data to prosecute individuals. They used it to help decide where speed cameras were most needed.
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