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Re:TomTom apologies for giving customer driving data to cops by wladimir on Thursday April 28, 2011 @02:58AM (#2492440)
It's indeed not what people gave permission for "use this data to improve the service" is not: "sell to third parties and the government".

But at least they gave only anonymized, statistical data to the police, so they knew where a lot of people are speeding and could post there.

I'd have been outraged if they had passed individual customer data so the police could send traffic tickets after-the-fact. But that's luckily not the case.

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Re:TomTom apologies for giving customer driving data to cops by joelhaasnoot on Thursday April 28, 2011 @03:15AM (#2492472)
Other news sources here in the Netherlands have also reported that it wasn't neccesarily direct info about individual users. A traffic analysis bureau created reports on this data for road management authorities, and the reports combined with accident data was were used to set speed traps.
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