GM settles California data-sharing case, pays $12.75M and halts driving-data sales
General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million to California prosecutors to settle claims it sold driving data (names, contacts, geolocation, and driving behavior) of hundreds of thousands of Californians to data brokers like Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis. GM will stop selling driving data to consumer reporting agencies for five years, delete existing data within 180 days unless drivers permit retention, and build a privacy program to assess data practices. The AG noted drivers were not directly impacted under California law, and GM still profited about $20 million from OnStar data despite the settlement.
