GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies

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General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver data, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a proposed settlement filed on Friday, GM agreed to stop selling customer information to data brokers for five years and must give California drivers the ability to stop its OnStar service from collecting location data.

GM became the subject of several lawsuits after a 2024 report by The New York Times revealed that automakers, including GM, had been sharing driving data — such as speed, hard braking, and rapid acceleration — with data brokers and insurance companies, which reportedly adjusted pricing based on this information.

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