It's indeed not what people gave permission for "use this data to improve the service" is not: "sell to third parties and the government".
But at least they gave only anonymized, statistical data to the police, so they knew where a lot of people are speeding and could post there.
I'd have been outraged if they had passed individual customer data so the police could send traffic tickets after-the-fact. But that's luckily not the case.
Other news sources here in the Netherlands have also reported that it wasn't neccesarily direct info about individual users. A traffic analysis bureau created reports on this data for road management authorities, and the reports combined with accident data was were used to set speed traps.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 20.1 ms ] threadREALLY? You never foresaw clients not being happy about it??
But at least they gave only anonymized, statistical data to the police, so they knew where a lot of people are speeding and could post there.
I'd have been outraged if they had passed individual customer data so the police could send traffic tickets after-the-fact. But that's luckily not the case.