TomTom To Sell GPS Data To Road Authorities, Private Companies

a bit gay.

but glad most people who live using tomtoms dont take the back roads!

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Long live the WRC

But I have a tomtom.... spends most of the time in the glove box lol

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Pit Crew, shit talker.

i have one also, but i thought it would be cool to delete all the data and maps off it turning it into a brick...

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How do they collect the data? As far as I knew the GPS didn't transmit anything, was only a receiver......?

I'd be thinking on updates Doug - that's when Apple iPhone exchanges it's info with home.

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Yeah it will be the same as the iphone/androids/every gps thingy out there. It keeps a tab of the satellite locations at certain times (i.e. when you power off) so it can find them quicker. The idea being that people hate waiting for a device to find GPS sat's.

Selling off this data is just utter shite though. Slap a big sticker on each device saying your data will be sold off to government/highest bidder and watch the sales of old skool UBD's go through the roof.

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No problem for me. I use a GPS but it never gets plugged into anything except a cigarette lighter, it would have to be pretty f'king clever to give anyone any info from there!

PS, anyone who's seen my Motorola brick knows I care not for new technology.