Posted on May 31, 2011 by jia zhou

Privacy can be precious to some people, we would like to have our privacy private, and not be knowing to the third party, other people or public. Once your privacy is invaded, you won’t feel your life to be secure. You felt like your every single behavior was watching by someone else. Would you like that to be your life? At least, I won’t feel comfortable about it.

TomTom, as you know it, one of the major player in our GPS market that provide the route guidance device, and service to us. On recent report, they were accused of collecting customers’ data and sold it to various organization, or even to the third party who interest in our driving habits. Such accusation may found accurate, and they should stop what they are doing. Otherwise, the consequence to their business can be serious.

As we installed one of the TomTom GPS device in our dashboard, and start driving on the road, it automatically collect our data, such as driving speed; the places we been to, or the route we go through frequently. Those data were collected and sold to various organizations for God knows, what purpose. Those organizations or third party in return, sold it to local government, like the traffic department. To raise the government revenue, the traffic department might set up a speed detection point at certain career where the speed will be likely to be violated, base on those data.

So, such business method by selling customer’s data to third party is intolerable. We should take guard on it and be warned all the time.