Europcar fined 45,000 for using GPS to track luxury cars hired out to wealthy customers
Car hire company Europcar has been fined nearly ?45,000 for tracking customers who rented luxury vehicles.
Data protection officials have called the practice 'a serious breach of the right to privacy'.
Europcar tracked its customers' journeys for eight years in Hamburg, Germany, using the sat-nav systems installed in their cars.
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