California Attorney General × General Motors, LLC
General Motors agreed to a $12.75 million settlement with the California Attorney General and several district attorneys over allegations it unlawfully sold OnStar subscribers' driving and location data to data brokers like LexisNexis and Verisk. [33, 37] The lawsuit alleged the practice violated California's privacy laws and contradicted GM's own privacy policies. [36, 37] The settlement is the largest in the history of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). [33, 36]
The asset
A settlement resolving allegations that the company unlawfully sold driving behavior, location, and personal data from hundreds of thousands of California OnStar subscribers to third-party data brokers. [37]
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- Automotive manufacturing
- Modalities
- telematics data, location data, driving behavior data
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Personal data
- The settlement addresses allegations of selling personally identifiable data without adequate disclosure or consent; it requires GM to stop selling such data to data brokers for five years and to delete retained data. [37, 38]
What it means if you hold data
This record settlement signals heightened regulatory enforcement against automakers for monetizing vehicle telematics data, establishing a significant financial penalty for inadequate consumer consent and a new benchmark for data privacy accountability in the connected car industry. [36]