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Question by Summer1904: In Ca is it legal for a finance co to secretly install a GPS tracking device on a customers automobile & deny it? I reside in the state of Ca. & final week I financed a utilised vehicle from a mid-sized utilized auto lot. Eairler this evening they requested we bring the vehicle in for them to take a couple of pictures requested of them by the finance co. We didn’t make it there untill after the sun had set, and supplied to bring the auto back tomorrow when it was light out. They mentioned that wasnt necessary and requested the keys to move automobile to lower level of lot to “photograph” underneath the shop lights. Even though waiting for our auto and walking about the uppper sales lot to pass the time, my fiancie was ready to see our auto beneath and observed mechanic working uo beneath the dash for a solid 10-15 min. (no one was taking pictures). When we asked about the machanic we had been told he was taking pix, & when we asked if they were installing a GPS in our vehicle, we had been told “absolutly not”, Realizing that finance Co’s have been knowen to install tracking devices in automobiles sold to people with crumby credit (for repo purposes) i demanded a stright answer from the salesmen in regards to our vehicle. Following alot of talking in circles we lastly pulled a mainly TRUTHFULL answer out of the GM. And “Yes,-Indead” a GPS tracking device had been installed in our automobile. Is this legal? From the information i can find onlibne it appears that is legal, but laws chance from state to state, And if it is legal to secreatly track our each move (simply because we are concidered a “risk” with our quite less then perfect credit), and then to not disclose this info to us upon our request? Sounds Like a violation of individual privacy rights to me. Thank you for your answers, I’ll be waiting to read them.

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