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Ford Exec: ‘We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law’ Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car
Business Insider ^ | January 8, 2014 | Jim Edwards

Posted on 01/09/2014 10:06:54 AM PST by billorites

Ford's Global VP/Marketing and Sales, Jim Farley, said something both sinister and obvious during a panel discussion about data privacy today at CES, the big electronics trade show in Las Vegas.

Because of the GPS units installed in Ford vehicles, Ford knows when its drivers are speeding, and where they are while they're doing it.

Farley was trying to describe how much data Ford has on its customers, and illustrate the fact that the company uses very little of it in order to avoid raising privacy concerns: "We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone," he told attendees.

Rather, he said, he imagined a day when the data might be used anonymously and in aggregate to help other marketers with traffic related problems. Suppose a stadium is holding an event; knowing how much traffic is making its way toward the arena might help the venue change its parking lot resources accordingly, he said.

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1 posted on 01/09/2014 10:06:54 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites

All of those Mustangs are ratting out their owners LOL


2 posted on 01/09/2014 10:10:01 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: billorites

On GM vehicles you can pull the fuse on the ONSTAR mirror and disable the whole thing. At least you could.
If the data is being stored by FORD or GM..then the govt can get it. Probably already has it.


3 posted on 01/09/2014 10:11:30 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: billorites

I think I’ll avoid buying cars with already installed GPS’s & just use one that I bought separately.


4 posted on 01/09/2014 10:11:31 AM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: billorites

I don’t need no steenking GPS!

Don’t install it in my car.


5 posted on 01/09/2014 10:13:15 AM PST by left that other site
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To: billorites

The first company that advertises they are NOT tracking consumers via GPS will see an increase in 20% of sales.


6 posted on 01/09/2014 10:13:33 AM PST by PGR88
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To: billorites

This guy is in marketing??? I hope Ford gives him a new job, soon.


7 posted on 01/09/2014 10:14:39 AM PST by Truth29
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To: billorites

Stop buying Fords ould be my recommendation after that comment. Time to Cracker Barrell him...


8 posted on 01/09/2014 10:14:44 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: billorites
I don't know about GPS but BlondeStar ™ devices for women are an absolute necessity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrt2q6Mpeyc

9 posted on 01/09/2014 10:14:46 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: billorites
Court Rules Cops Don't Need A Warrant to Track Cell Phones
10 posted on 01/09/2014 10:15:25 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: billorites; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
"By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone," yet.

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

11 posted on 01/09/2014 10:15:30 AM PST by null and void (It is as if they all had one head. Too bad they don't all have one neck.)
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To: billorites

This dunce is in charge of marketing? Maybe for Toyota.


12 posted on 01/09/2014 10:16:00 AM PST by bramps (Mark Levin: Would Christie, McConnell, and Boehner repeal obamacare? Not a chance!)
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To: Twotone

My dad wonders why I have an old 1980 Plymouth that I want to get back into service asap. No GPS, no complex EFI system, speed control, etc. Just a 360, 4 barrel and a Torqueflite.


13 posted on 01/09/2014 10:17:09 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: jsanders2001

Every car with a built in GPS (which these days is almost every car) has the same situation. If your car knows where you are it knows how fast you’re going, and it knows enough about the local traffic laws (if only from observing their other drivers) to know when you’re breaking them.


14 posted on 01/09/2014 10:17:18 AM PST by discostu (I don't meme well.)
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To: billorites

Don’t forget the black boxes. Federally required on ALL 2014 vehicles. By unconstitutional regulation, NOT by Constitutional legislation.

Buy a leftover 2013 model and keep it as long as you can.


15 posted on 01/09/2014 10:17:38 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: billorites
. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone, yet

So why is it gathered? Solely to deny warranty claims?

16 posted on 01/09/2014 10:18:23 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: billorites

The GPS is fine, its the transmitter radioing info to Ford that’s the problem.


17 posted on 01/09/2014 10:19:43 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: jsanders2001

Before the government has an orgasm thinking about the prospect of tapping into our GPS and issuing automated citations, let me just say this - Hammer time because that is exactly what will happen to my GPS whether they try to pull an Obamacare on this issue too. I will beat that GPS unit 6 ways to Sunday...


18 posted on 01/09/2014 10:19:58 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Truth29
This guy is in marketing??? I hope Ford gives him a new job, soon.

LOL!

19 posted on 01/09/2014 10:19:59 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: PGR88

I think it’s going to come to that. Let the market decide what goes in our cars, not so much the Govt. Data collection has become a means of activity in and of itself, not really needing to do the actually finding of terrorists.


20 posted on 01/09/2014 10:20:17 AM PST by lee martell
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