The automaker was accused of collecting drivers' behavior data without their knowledge and providing it to third-party agencies that set insurance rates.

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. For example, one ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged General Motors (NYSE:GM) and its subsidiary OnStar over unauthorized sharing of driver data with third parties. The U.S. automaker has agreed to a five-year ...

General Motors will be banned for five years from disclosing data that it collects from drivers to consumer reporting agencies as part of a settlement with the government to resolve claims that the au ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a new proposal that bans General Motors (GM) and its subscription-based services subsidiary, OnStar, from providing consumer reporting agencies ...

Now the FTC has smacked GM with a settlement that we can live with. In March of 2024, the New York Times put together a bang-up exposé on GM's vehicle data collection habit – everything from ...

The FTC says GM and OnStar sold the data - which can be used to set insurance rates - from millions of vehicles. In a press release, the FTC says as part of a proposed order that would settle the ...

GM sold precise driver data collected through OnStar and a discontinued feature called Smart Driver. The information could have hiked insurance rates.

The Federal Trade Commission alleges that GM and OnStar — GM’s subscription-based in-vehicle safety and security system — collected, used, and sold drivers’ precise geolocation data and driving ...

In its complaint, the FTC alleged that Detroit-based GM used a misleading enrollment process to get consumers to sign up for OnStar's services and its Smart Driver feature, which the automaker ...

Although Smart Driver was created to promote safer driving behavior, we ended that program due to customer feedback,” GM said in a statement. “The FTC consent order includes new measures that ...