{"id":247466,"date":"2026-05-16T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/general-motors-to-pay-12-75-million-in-driver-data-privacy-settlement\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:11:18","slug":"general-motors-to-pay-12-75-million-in-driver-data-privacy-settlement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/general-motors-to-pay-12-75-million-in-driver-data-privacy-settlement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"General Motors to pay $12.75 million in driver data privacy settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/general-motors-to-pay-1275-million-in-driver-data-privacy-settlement\/509-8a752ccb-e469-4f51-b6c6-dcfc59ce1926\">General Motors to pay $12.75 million in driver data privacy settlement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/general-motors-to-pay-1275-million-in-driver-data-privacy-settlement\/509-8a752ccb-e469-4f51-b6c6-dcfc59ce1926\">https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/general-motors-to-pay-1275-million-in-driver-data-privacy-settlement\/509-8a752ccb-e469-4f51-b6c6-dcfc59ce1926<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-16 01:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbs8.com\">www.cbs8.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million after California accused the company of collecting and selling drivers\u2019 location and driving behavior data.<\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 California investigators accused General Motors of collecting and selling drivers\u2019 geo-location and driving behavior data through its OnStar system without properly informing customers or giving them a chance to opt out.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the automaker has agreed to pay $12.75 million and stop sharing certain driver data with consumer reporting agencies for five years as part of a settlement that is raising broader questions about privacy in modern vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims GM used its OnStar roadside assistance and navigation system to collect and sell driver data to third-party brokers without consent. Investigators say the company made about $20 million from those sales between 2020 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>To better understand what information modern cars can collect, News 8 spoke with cybersecurity expert Nikolas Behar.<\/p>\n<p>Behar said modern cars can collect large amounts of information through their infotainment systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything&#8217;s connected, how fast you&#8217;re going, what you&#8217;re listening to, where you&#8217;re going, the GPS, who&#8217;s in the car, how many people are in the car, what temperature,&#8221; Behar said. &#8220;Because all of these things are controlled through the infotainment system, which is just one big computer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says GM sold driving behavior and geo-location data to two data brokers, who then offered it to car insurance companies. Investigators say that data could then be used to adjust insurance rates based on driving habits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCars, apps and insurers and data brokers, they&#8217;re&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/general-motors-to-pay-1275-million-in-driver-data-privacy-settlement\/509-8a752ccb-e469-4f51-b6c6-dcfc59ce1926\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors to pay $12.75 million in driver data privacy settlement https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/general-motors-to-pay-1275-million-in-driver-data-privacy-settlement\/509-8a752ccb-e469-4f51-b6c6-dcfc59ce1926 Publish Date: 2026-05-16&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cbs8.com\/assets\/KFMB\/images\/72b203e4-f16d-49f7-aabf-fb8544a97d66\/20260516T050908\/72b203e4-f16d-49f7-aabf-fb8544a97d66_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247470,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247466\/revisions\/247470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}