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GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar are banned from selling customer geolocation and driving behavior data for five years, the Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday.
GM accepts FTC order to stop sharing driver data without consent
GM sold precise driver data collected through OnStar and a discontinued feature called Smart Driver. The information could have hiked insurance rates.
FTC bans GM from disclosing driver, consumer data to consumer reporting agencies
U.S. automaker General Motors will be banned for five years from disclosing consumers' sensitive geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies, the Federal Trade Commission said in a statement on Thursday.
GM Settles FTC Case on Driver Data Misuse
General Motors and OnStar have agreed not to share consumers' geolocation and driver data with reporting agencies for five years. The FTC alleged misuse of data without proper consent. GM ended its Smart Driver program and must adhere to new consent guidelines.
General Motors Is Banned From Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years
An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission determined that consumers had not been aware that the automaker was providing their driving information to data brokers.
GM agrees to 5-year ban on selling drivers' location data
U.S. automaker General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar agreed not to disclose consumers' sensitive geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies for five years, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday.
Your car knows a lot about you. The FTC wants to make sure GM and other carmakers don’t take advantage.
U.S. regulators took aim at General Motors and its OnStar unit late Thursday, saying that they had taken their first-ever ...
FTC to ban GM from sharing connected vehicle data with consumer reporting agencies
“GM monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three ...
General Motors Reaches Settlement With FTC for Selling Consumer Data
General Motors reached an agreement to settle allegations that the automaker shared drivers’ locations and behavior data ...
Here’s Why General Motors Company (GM) Is Gaining Momentum From Key Collaborations
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GM patents EV that can charge and power stuff simultaneously
The patent describes a "charging system" with a pair of charging ports. One is for drawing power from an external source, ...