FTC cracks down on GM and OnStar for secretly selling drivers' location and behavior data

FTC cracks down on GM and OnStar for secretly selling drivers' location and behavior data

(TNS) — If your car was made by General Motors, it may know a lot about you and be spilling the beans to credit bureaus — whether you know it or not.

FTC cracks down on GM and OnStar for secretly selling drivers’ location and behavior data

If your car was made by General Motors, it may know a lot about you and be spilling the beans to credit bureaus — whether you know it or not. Every...

GM OnStar Settlement Reached With FTC Over Selling Private Driving Data

Federal regulators have banned GM and OnStar from providing customer driving information to any consumer reporting agencies for the next five years, following allegations that the companies collected and sold personal data from millions of drivers without their consent. OnStar is a GM subsidiary, which provides in-vehicle services, including automatic crash response, roadside assistance, stolen vehicle tracking, navigation and other connectivity…

Federal Trade Commission steps in against General Motors: new rules on data management of connected cars

FTC Takes Action Against GM and OnStar for Alleged Data Privacy Violations

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has initiated its first enforcement action involving connected vehicle data, alleging that General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary OnStar collected and sold sensitive geolocation and driving behavior data from millions of vehicles without adequate consumer knowledge or consent. According to the FTC, these practices violated consumer privacy and resulted in data misuse by third parties, includi…

FTC bans GM from selling data collected from cars

21 January 2025 In a recent settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), General Motors (GM) consented to a five-year ban on selling or using geolocation and driving behavior data. GM’s OnStar service and its now-canceled Smart Driver program gathered and sold data from millions of cars without explicit customer authorization led to this FTC ban. According to the FTC’s investigation, GM collected users’ precise geolocation information …