{"id":1053,"date":"2026-05-11T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:11:23","slug":"gm-settles-california-lawsuit-claiming-it-sold-driving-habit-data-to-insurance-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GM logo illustration\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23988525\/acastro_STK057_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">General Motors <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/when-it-comes-data-privacy-consumers-must-be-driver%E2%80%99s-seat-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has agreed to pay $12.75 million<\/a> to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sustainability\/boards-policy-regulation\/gm-pay-1275-million-settle-california-driver-privacy-probe-2026-05-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as reported earlier by <em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28112382-california-gm-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a proposed settlement filed on Friday<\/a>, GM agreed to stop selling customer information to data brokers for five years and must give California drivers the ability to stop its OnStar service from collecting location data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by <em>The New York Times<\/em> revealed<\/a> that automakers, including GM, had been sharing driving data &#8211; such as speed, hard braking, and rapid acceleration &#8211; with data brokers an \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/927863\/gm-settles-california-lawsuit-claiming-it-sold-driving-habit-data-to-insurance-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}