TomTom Shakes Off Suit Alleging ‘Lifetime’ Map Updates Deception

TomTom North America Inc. defeated a proposed class action alleging it deceptively promised “lifetime” map updates on some GPS devices, as a federal court said a New York man failed to detail how consumers would be deceived or show he was affected.

Francis McVetty alleged that TomTom’s marketing representations of lifetime map and traffic updates were illusory given undisclosed caveats that the “lifetime” wasn’t merely the lifetime of the device, but the amount of time TomTom chose to support it. The company discontinued lifetime updates for some devices in 2018, he alleged.

The first iteration of his complaint was dismissed ...