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Friday, May 07, 2010

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]

by Adena Schutzberg on 05/07 at 07:25 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

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