General Motors (GM) and a group of California enforcement agencies led by state Attorney General Rob Bonta have reached a settlement, Bonta’s office announced on May 8, requiring GM to pay $12.75 million in penalties and follow driving data restrictions.
Bonta’s office cited a 2024 New York Times report on automakers, including GM, sharing consumers’ driving data with insurance companies, with some insurers raising customers’ rates in other states based on the data.
It said the California DOJ partnered with multiple district attorneys to investigate these reports. Its investigation found that from 2020 to 2024, GM sold the names, contact information, geolocation data, and driving behavior data of hundreds of thousands of Californians to two data brokers—Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis Risk Solutions….