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TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops
'Anonymous' info used to set speed traps
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
City of Los Angeles Case Study Navigation device maker TomTom has apologized for supplying driving data collected from customers to police to use in catching speeding motorists. The data, including historical speed, has been sold to local and regional governments in the Netherlands to help police set speed traps, Dutch newspaper AD reported here, with a Google translation here.
As more smartphones offer GPS navigation service, TomTom has been forced to compensate for declining profit by increasing sales in other areas, including the selling of traffic data.
