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General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers After Backlash (www.nytimes.com)

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The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that collected data about how the car had been driven and promised feedback and digital badges for good driving.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

General Motors said Friday that it had stopped sharing details about how people drove its cars with two data brokers that created risk profiles for the insurance industry.

had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry.

Since Wednesday, “OnStar Smart Driver customer data is no longer being shared with LexisNexis or Verisk,” a G.M.

Romeo Chicco, a Florida man whose insurance rates nearly doubled after his Cadillac collected his driving data, filed a complaint seeking class-action status against G.M., OnStar and LexisNexis this month.

An internal document, reviewed by The Times, showed that as of 2022, more than eight million vehicles were included in Smart Driver.

An employee familiar with the program said the company’s annual revenue from Smart Driver was in the low millions of dollars.

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