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

Source: The Verge

Settlement Overview

• General Motors will pay $12.75 million to settle a California data‑privacy lawsuit.
• The lawsuit alleged that GM sold driver location and other driving‑habit data to data brokers.

Terms of the Proposed Settlement

• GM will stop selling customer information to data brokers for five years.
• California drivers will be given the ability to opt out of OnStar’s location‑data collection.

Background

• The legal actions followed a 2024 report by The New York Times that automakers, including GM, were sharing driving data—such as speed, hard braking, and rapid acceleration—with data brokers.
• The case was also reported by Reuters.

Further Reading

Read the full story at The Verge