Sen. Franken Demands Answers On GPS Tracking
Sen. Al Franken is demanding answers from a major auto dealer after an executive said the company is using GPS information to track customers’ activities.
The statement was made by an executive at Ford Motor Company, and it’s the latest in a wave of revelations about privacy breaches that include government tracking of cell phone activity and the massive credit card breaches at Target and other stores.
Franken, a Democrat, is chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law and is using that platform to call for some major changes.
This is the statement that created the GPS stir: Ford Vice President Jim Farley said, “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.”
Farley and Ford have since retracted the statement, but Franken says there is evidence that Ford is tracking and supplying personal information to other parties.
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