Do you own a Tom-Tom GPS unit?

[thewayne]

Guess what! Not only do the units with 3G capability track your location AND speed, the manufacturer makes it available (in an anonymized fashion, naturallyallegedly) to law enforcement and local gov't!

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/tomtom-admits-to-sending-your-routes-and-speed-information-to-the-police-50003618/

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/28/1719247/GPS-Maker-TomTom-Submits-Your-Speed-Data-To-Police

Allegedly this is sent back to Tom-Tom HQ to help them build congestion maps. Theoretically this could be used by street traffic engineers to note that the average speed on a particular roadway is at +5 or +10 over the limit and there has not been a significant increase in accidents, so why not increase the speed limit? Like that's going to happen.

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[silveradept]

I'm betting that data helps the police determine where to put their radar guns when it comes time to raise revenues from fines.