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Shady Selling of Driver Data Just Cost GM Another $12.75 Million

General Motors is still getting its butt kicked by the 2024 New York Times exposé that called out the company for sneakily selling driver data. In January, an FTC ruling banned the automaker from selling location data at all for the next five years. The latest shockwave ripple: the California Attorney General just secured a $12.75 million settlement over GM’s “illegal sale of hundreds of thousands of Californians’ location and driving data.”

This GM data saga has been going on for two, or about 11, years, depending on how you look at it. GM started collecting driving data, things like speed, braking, and locations, through OnStar in 2015, but reproductions have only sta …

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Author: Andrew P. Collins

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