The government monitors them phone calls your. Retailers identify the your buying habits. And it looks strange to you the fact that automakers keep track of where you are driving? What do not you understand?
Perhaps we are not talking about Greece yet, but short chanting. So they say a new one report of the GAO, an independent agency that works for the United States Congress (Government Accountability Office), έξι από τις 10 Αμερικανικές εταιρείες που χρησιμοποιούν συσκευές εντοπισμού θέσης στα products τους είναι αυτοκινητοβιομηχανίες, μεταξύ των οποίων η Ford , η Chrysler and General Motors.
The agency found that companies that provide a track location (car tracking machine) with the car for the purpose of security against car theft, use their customers' location data to inform the daily traffic data, to help law enforcement and generally serve GPS systems of third parties and companies.
Such as he says Ad Age website, companies, in some cases, send some of the data to researchers studying traffic plans and other road network phenomena.
Additionally, Ad Age reports that the location data of specific car models can be sold to advertising companies that target specific demographics. In addition, the information can be sold to insurance companies that want to assess, say, how safe a guide.
In general, the report concludes that companies are aware of the protection of their customers' privacy, but often do not make it clear to customers that they are providing personal information or do not even fully explain what they collect, what they mean by "common data use ”etc.
"Without clear disclosures," the report concludes, "there is an increased risk that data may be collected or shared for purposes that the consumer did not expect or did not actually agree to."
