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Customers continue to zero in on car rental companies' use of GPS tracking system
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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August 21, 2002
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- JANE ENGLE
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Customers continue to zero in on car rental companies' use of GPS
tracking system
By JANE ENGLE Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Big Brother may be watching you in your rental car.
Again.
A flurry of lawsuits filed in the last few months claims a Budget
Rent a Car licensee in Tucson, Ariz., used satellite technology to
track renters who took cars out of state -- and penalized them
thousands of dollars under a policy that charged $1 per mile if the
car was taken beyond the boundary. The suits allege invasion of
privacy and fraud, among other claims.
In one case, company employees allegedly told a renter which
hotels he and his wife had stayed in, according to the couple's ...