General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data

[NorCalBusa]

Oh, they would never do that!

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent.

The settlement, announced Friday, is the largest ever for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, a 2018 law that requires companies to tell consumers about how their data is shared and to respect requests to stop the sharing.

It stemmed from an investigation by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, several county district attorneys, and the California Privacy Protection Agency, which enforces the privacy act. They said General Motors misled drivers who paid for the emergency roadside and navigation service OnStar and made approximately $20 million from the unlawful sale of their data between 2020 and 2024. The information included names, location information, driving behavior, and contact information, Bonta said, which went to the data brokers LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk Analytics.

GM just paid a record penalty for breaking California privacy law

General Motors agreed to pay California a $12 million civil penalty after selling driving data on hundreds of thousands of OnStar users

calmatters.org

 

[budman]

So they made $20m.
They are fined 12.5m
Zero people sold out will receive a penny or an apology.

Fuck this mess