General Motors Agrees To Pay $220 Million To Settle Multi-State Data Privacy Lawsuit
The automaker sold driver data to insurance companies without permission from 2016 through 2024.
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The states that sued General Motors over the whole OnStar Smart Driver program debacle have settled with the company. GM has agreed to pay $220 million to resolve the lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of 35 US states and the District of Columbia.
If you'll recall, The New York Times reported in 2024 that GM had enrolled millions of customers to its Smart Driver program from 2016 through 2024 and then tracked their driving habits. The automaker used Smart Driver to log data on hard braking, late night driving and speeding and then sold the information to data brokers for insurance. As a result, insurance companies raised premiums for people based on information from the program.
GM didn't tell its customers that their data would be sold for that purpose, the attorneys general ...
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