GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police

An anonymous reader writes "The GPS systems in TomTom's Live range all feature built-in 3G data cards, which feed location and route information back to a central server. According to CNET, this data, along with users' speed information, is being made available to local governments and the police." From the article: "Knowing the cops can see where you're driving and how fast you're going is eye-opening stuff, but TomTom says the data is anonymous and can never be traced back to an individual user or device. Ordinarily, we'd be reassured by this, but we recall Apple saying something similar before the location-tracking excrement hit the phone-carrying fan."

Comments

Apple apologist

[Dynetrekk]

I am an apple apologist, I guess. The reason is that I see the fact that Apple stores your location data on your cell phone when you are using their _location_ services as less serious than TomTom _giving_away_ your data to the authorities on a general basis, with no warrant or anything of the sort. Funny thing is, I don't even have an iPhone myself, and even I think that analogy fails pretty miserably.

Re:Apple apologist

[node 3]

Um, yeah, that's how bugs work. They generally don't get fixed until they are discovered.

Re:Reassured??

[StikyPad]

If you're using a GPS to get to and from you home every day, you might have bigger problems, and indeed, it's probably best that someone's keeping track of you.