(California) General Motors to pay $12.75M to settle consumer protection lawsuit

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Source: City News Service

General Motors to pay $12.75M to settle consumer protection lawsuit

The sold data included names, phone numbers, home addresses.

By City News Service • Published 4 hours ago • Updated 4 hours ago

General Motors will pay $12.75 million to resolve a civil lawsuit alleging that from 2020-24, the company unlawfully sold hundreds of thousands of OnStar subscribers' personal information and driving data to third-party data brokers in violation of California's privacy, false advertising and unfair competition laws, officials announced Friday.

The lawsuit, filed by the California Attorney General and the District Attorneys of Los Angeles, Napa, San Francisco and Sonoma counties with support from the California Privacy Protection Agency, alleges that from 2016 to 2024, General Motors collected and kept driver- and driving-related data from hundreds of thousands of Californians who had subscribed to OnStar, a vehicle connectivity service offered by General Motors.

The data included names, phone numbers, home addresses, speeds, rapid acceleration and hard braking, as well as the GPS location of where OnStar subscribers drove and parked their vehicles.

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