With involuntary help of the navigation manufacturer TomTom, police in the Netherlands has chosen some time streets for speed traps. Made possible by anonymous customer data, acknowledged TomTom.
TomTom sold customer data to the road use at the municipal and provincial authorities. They in turn used for planning of infrastructure projects. The authorities, the data flows but also to the police. The officials noted the fact is often driven out too fast and were planning thus makes the design of stationary speed cameras.
Also in Germany, TomTom's navigation data to the local users. It had been purchased but no municipality data, said a spokesman for the TomTom news agency dpa. CEO Harold Goddijn apologized in an e-mail newsletter from the Dutch customers. "This kind of use we have not seen before, " he insisted. You have full understanding that customers do not want this. Goddijn promised to prevent the possibility of access for the traffic police.
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