Trackers in car

[krimsun]

Hi

Need some advice. I've been asked at work to have a company tracking device fitted in my car. Its like an airplane black box that tracks everything from location to speed. I've been told its for my safety (i work on a team of ten and we are out 60% of the time in the local community visiting clients).

It takes two hours to fit to my car, has a "privacy" button but is on 24 hours a day.

I feel uneasy.

I have nothing to hide and do my job (with the occasional stop for a packet of M&Ms) but the fact its in my private car and collating all this data worries me - if I crash can the police/insurance request the info from my company? Will it effect my insurance? Can I be forced to have it?

Has anyone else been in this situation?

If it's your car tell them no. Bloody cheek.

Yes - my own private car. They page me an essential car users allowance but thats it.

My heart says "no" but by saying that you feel guilty of being on the fiddle! I guess I'm looking for a better reason to refuse but I guess the fact its my own private car should be enough.

Not a problem in a work supplied vehicle but in your own private car it's pretty invasive.

If it's not a company car, just say no.

I think it would depend on what the privacy button does. Does it stop the tracking completely? If so, then I'd be ok with it, BUT I would press the privacy button the moment I finished work, and not press it again until I started work. Outside those hours it's nobody's business where you go.

If it still records the information despite the privacy button, then I would be very very reluctant to allow it to be fitted (and I am the very definition of "nothing to hide")

I wouldn't allow w it on my own car, too intrusive

Thanks everyone - I just wondered if I was being out of line by not wanting it. Feel like I'm being treated like a child the more i think about it!