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z31maniac wrote:Ojala wrote: A decent cop will ask almost every traffic stop if they have anything illegal and can they search.Guess I've never met a decent cop in the last 13 years!
I've had my car searched 7 times in the last two years. Seriously.
In reply to 92CelicaHalfTrac:
7 times in two years...wow- are you being "profiled"? I've never had my car searched- got a ticket from Ponch jerk one day for speeding going to hospital... arrogant doesn't even begin to describe that dude.
cardiacdog wrote:In reply to 92CelicaHalfTrac:
7 times in two years...wow- are you being "profiled"? I've never had my car searched- got a ticket from Ponch jerk one day for speeding going to hospital... arrogant doesn't even begin to describe that dude.
Maybe? Or maybe it's just bored cops with nothing better to do. Last one searched my car and then made some stupid comments about rust holes in the trunk. Something about the drugs would have fallen out of the car anyways.
I didn't realize it was mandatory to own a smartphone in Michigan. They'd have so much fun wondering how to hook up my el-cheapo dumb-phone. :)
Ack, every week there's more.
"It appears every gadget in your possession is tracking your location. First it was the iPhone, then Android phones and now it's your GPS.
"TomTom, perhaps in a pre-emptive strike against its own user-tracking scandal, has admitted its sat-navs can track users and inform third parties about how fast they're going. It's now emerged that this data is being made available to local governments and authorities.
TomTom CEO: "'We are now aware that the police have used traffic information that you have helped to create to place speed cameras at locations where the average speed is higher than the legally allowed speed limit.'"
nderwater wrote:TomTom CEO: "'We are now aware that the police have used traffic information that you have helped to create to place speed cameras at locations where the average speed is higher than the legally allowed speed limit.'"
Wait, he really expects people to believe that his company is JUST NOW aware of the data transfer? BS.
And I still prefer those paper things with all the squiggly lines on the pages; driving is more fun that way.
I find this disheartening. But I do love my GPS and my iPhone. I used to think it was good enough not to own an OnStar equipped vehicle...
WHAT?!?!?! THE GPS KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU'VE BEEN!?!?!?!? That is pretty messed up that they send that info out, though.
Ummmmm. As far as I'm aware, GPS doesn't work that way, unless TomToms have a secondary transmitter that is broadcasting your location to something else entirely. But the actual GPS grid itself neither knows nor cares where your receiver happens to be located.
GPS units are recievers. Some will be coupled with a high frequency transmitter. The transmitter sends the information to a reciever that shows the GPS units location on a screen. These units are used by houndsmen to track their dogs when they are running cats or bears. I know that aviation GPS does not work that way and I am quite certain that automotive units do not have a transmitter.
^Exactly, which means it was intentional.
Like Steve Jobs saying the iPhone storing your movements was an "unintended consequence" or whatever phrasing he used.
Certainly there are some guys that write code in here, can you guys conceive of anyway that the code could be an "accident" in the software that tracks and stores data, completely irrelevant to the proposed usage of the device?
I think that the 'reporting back' is part of the traffic reporting feature - TomTom aggregates users location and speed to produce traffic congestion data and recommend alternate routes.
Just a nitpicky note, your movement will be tracked by ANY cell phone regardless of whether or not it has a GPS. The phone company always knows what particular tower you're connected to, and can often triangulate between towers. That's how they bill you roaming charges. No, they don't know your location down to the meter like a GPS transmitter would, but it would be accurate enough to have a good idea where your commute takes you and where you go on road trips, if they were inclined to crunch all the data and dump it into a mapping program.
There are some places, like Indonesia, where you can buy prepaid SIM cards from street vendors and not have to give your name or show any ID at all, but if you have a phone contract than there's no way around them having your name and knowing where you are. Now whether the company does anything sinister with that info (well, more sinister than extorting exorbitant, completely unnecessary "roaming fees" anyway) is a different story.
If you have an Iphone, there's a good chance that not only your phone company but also Apple know exactly who you are and where you've been. And I would place good bets on them doing the sinister stuff.
