The Latest Worry: Stored Data on Second Hand SatNavs
If you buy a used car and it comes with a nav system, that system may offer you a “road map” to the previous owners life - where they lived, where they shopped, even a button to open their garage door. Apparently there is no law that requires dealers to clear such information. While it’s not easy to do it yourself, it is possible.
- CBS 13
[For those who watch tech news, this is comparable to a recent CBS investigation about copy machines that retain scans of documents on their hard drives. Those too are not regularly cleared before sale. - C|net]
