Apple is tracking your every move-Shame on them
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THE uproar is this, folks. It's not that they track you. It's that they track you, and then the POLICE CAN IMMEDIATELY CONFISCATE THE DATA WITHOUT PERMISSION OR CAUSE IF YOU'RE STOPPED. That is the problem here, not that they're tracking, it never has been about the tracking itself.
Also, ya'll can take that gps and shove it where the sun don't shine...
GPS Company TomTom Sold Drivers' Speeding Data to Dutch Police
Published April 29, 2011 | NewsCore
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GPS mapping company TomTom apologized after it admitted selling data collected from its customers to Dutch police, the Financial Times reported Friday.
The Amsterdam-based company sold data to cops in The Netherlands that was then used to help police set speed traps for motorists.
The company already supplies data to local authorities to help them plan new road layouts and beat bottlenecks.
As the amount of cash the company makes from selling GPS devices slows, the firm has looked to increase revenues from selling data -- with 36 percent of its 2010 revenue coming from "content and service" streams.
But customers reacted angrily to their data being sold to cops, with one taking to the company's message boards, saying, "For me the issue is that TomTom are not that explicit about how they will use your info when you purchase the device."
Chief Executive Harold Goddijn said that he was not aware that the data would be used in the battle against speeding motorists and said the company would change its licensing agreements to stop the practice.
"At no point has the individual privacy of customers been compromised. We cannot link the data back to an individual, nor can the police," he said.
Apple, Microsoft and Google were all recently caught up in privacy squabbles after questions were raised over how they use customers' data.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...-dutch-police/
Published April 29, 2011 | NewsCore
GPS mapping company TomTom apologized after it admitted selling data collected from its customers to Dutch police, the Financial Times reported Friday.
The Amsterdam-based company sold data to cops in The Netherlands that was then used to help police set speed traps for motorists.
The company already supplies data to local authorities to help them plan new road layouts and beat bottlenecks.
As the amount of cash the company makes from selling GPS devices slows, the firm has looked to increase revenues from selling data -- with 36 percent of its 2010 revenue coming from "content and service" streams.
But customers reacted angrily to their data being sold to cops, with one taking to the company's message boards, saying, "For me the issue is that TomTom are not that explicit about how they will use your info when you purchase the device."
Chief Executive Harold Goddijn said that he was not aware that the data would be used in the battle against speeding motorists and said the company would change its licensing agreements to stop the practice.
"At no point has the individual privacy of customers been compromised. We cannot link the data back to an individual, nor can the police," he said.
Apple, Microsoft and Google were all recently caught up in privacy squabbles after questions were raised over how they use customers' data.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...-dutch-police/
Last edited by cdynaco; Apr 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM.
HUMANCENTiPAD
South Park: HUMANCENTiPAD (ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04.27.2011)
Kyle is intimately involved in the development of a revolutionary new product that is about to be launched by Apple. Meanwhile, Cartman doesn't even have a regular iPad yet. He blames his mother.
South Park: HUMANCENTiPAD (ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04.27.2011)
Kyle is intimately involved in the development of a revolutionary new product that is about to be launched by Apple. Meanwhile, Cartman doesn't even have a regular iPad yet. He blames his mother.
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From: Raleigh,NC
I don't care if I'm tracked. I have nothing to hide and the quality of their products can't be beat. 
The only thing I do have to say is Steve Jobs is a **** but thats probably why he's so successful.
If you can't tell I'm a big apple person. My brother is a big android person. I understand why people like it. Competition is great! Keep it coming android!
The only thing I do have to say is Steve Jobs is a **** but thats probably why he's so successful.
If you can't tell I'm a big apple person. My brother is a big android person. I understand why people like it. Competition is great! Keep it coming android!
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