Buffalo News: High-tech GPS devices in vehicles are magnets for thieves
Friday, February 29, 2008
GadgetTrak was featured in a recent article on GPS theft in the Buffalo New York region, GadgetTrak founder Ken Westin was quoted along side a researcher from the Urban Institute:
“As there is more crime, the manufacturers are going to step in,” said Ken Westin, founder of GadgetTrak, a company in Portland, Ore., that sells software that can be installed in electronic devices to help their rightful owners find them if they are stolen.
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The GPS manufacturers need to do more to make the devices harder to steal or reuse, said Westin of GadgetTrak and the Urban Institute’s Roman.
