Privacy Watch: Rental agency hit for spying on speeders: “A Connecticut car rental company that used satellites to track customers and then charge them for speeding was ordered Wednesday to pay back the $10,000 total to the drivers it fined.

The Connecticut Consumer Protection Commission said that Acme Rent-a-Car’s practice of assessing customers $150 each time they crossed the speed limit violated the law.

The company tracked the customers’ driving habits through global positioning devices that many rental agencies use to locate their vehicles in case they are stolen or taken across state or national borders.” C/net