“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.
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I’ll bet the farm that if you don’t make your car payments to Ford Motor Credit that GPS info will be relayed to all repo trucks in your general vicinity.
The GPS positioning data (at minimum) is used by law enforcement today. The GPS tracking in Aaron Hernadez' smart phone and from is rental car were used to put him at the crime scene and put him in the vehicle that was at the crime scene. Seems maybe they found a gun or brass in the car?
Making all this sensor data useful is what a lot of the talk about "big data" is about. Between your smartphone, blackbox in your car, credit card receipts, other? - you won't be able to take a leak without leaving footprints in sensors somewhere.
Hello,
Not sure about Ford Motor Credit, but many of the high risk car financing companies use a GPS unit to do just that. Also, many use something called a “kill switch”. Late on the payment? Turn off the car and it will not start again until the company turns it back on.
Welcome to the brave new world....
MOgirl