General Motors (GM) has agreed to a $220 million settlement with a coalition of 36 attorneys general to resolve allegations that it unlawfully sold customer data to third parties.
GM allegedly sold customers’ location information and driver behavior data to third parties, including data brokers, who then resold it to insurance companies. The insurers used this information to set premiums depending on drivers’ driving habits. However, “GM did not disclose to drivers that their data would be sold for this purpose,” the Washington state attorney general’s office said in an Oct. 29 statement.
Washington co-led the case together with Oregon. GM has settled the matter with all 36 attorneys general….