{"id":310632,"date":"2026-05-11T18:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:19:18","slug":"gm-settles-california-lawsuit-claiming-it-sold-driving-habit-data-to-insurance-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310632\/","title":{"rendered":"GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">GM became the subject of several lawsuits after a 2024 report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/11\/technology\/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?ref=oembed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by The New York Times revealed<\/a> that automakers, including GM, had been sharing driving data \u2014 such as speed, hard braking, and rapid acceleration \u2014 with data brokers and insurance companies, which reportedly adjusted pricing based on this information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Under its settlement with California, GM must provide \u201cclear and conspicuous\u201d privacy notices about data collection when drivers enroll in OnStar. The automaker is also required to delete all driver data covered by the lawsuit and ask for customer consent before collecting or using a person\u2019s driving data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cThis agreement addresses Smart Driver, a product we discontinued in 2024, and reinforces steps we\u2019ve taken to strengthen our privacy practices,\u201d GM spokesperson Charlotte McCoy says in an emailed statement to The Verge. \u201cVehicle connectivity is central to a modern and safe driving experience, which is why we\u2019re committed to being clear and transparent with our customers about our practices and the choices and control they have over their information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cToday\u2019s settlement requires General Motors to abandon these illegal practices and underscores the importance of the data minimization in California\u2019s privacy law \u2014 companies can\u2019t just hold on to data and use it later for another purpose,\u201d California Attorney General Rob Bonta says in the press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Update, May 11th: Added a statement from GM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GM became the subject of several lawsuits after a 2024 report by The New York Times revealed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,16353,100,9295,995,1967],"class_list":["post-310632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-gm","tag-news","tag-privacy","tag-tech","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}