Monday, September 16, 2013

Private Companies Mining Your GPS Data

Inrix is a private corporation that has access to aggregate GPS Data from your smart phone.

The service offered you is:

"Our unique Smart Driver Network aggregates traffic-related information from millions of GPS-enabled vehicles and mobile devices, traditional road sensors and hundreds of other sources. The result is accurate real-time, historical and predictive traffic services on freeways, highways, and secondary roadways, including arterials and side streets." 

1 comment:

Jon B Goode said...

So my personal information is not being used. And no one would ever be interested in my whereabouts. Great!