A UK man who woke up one morning to discover his bank account being charged for satnav services linked to a car he'd sold months previously has expressed his frustration at Mazda and TomTom over the strange affair.
Ben Rose owned a Mazda CX-5 until late last year. His vehicle included a dashboard-mounted in-car entertainment (ICE) suite powered by TomTom, which later proved to be the source of some strange goings-on that cost him money (since refunded) and made him fear that his personal data had been saved by the car and was now allowing someone else to bill him for the in-car satnav.
In December 2019 Rose sold his Mazda. He told The Register: “After arriving at the car dealer I joked with my children that I was using the ‘self destruct’ button on the car as I dug out the option to wipe all person ..
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