https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/19/gm-lexisnexis-sued-for-nontransparent-sale-of-driver-behavior-data-to-insurers/
The amount of data some of these new cars are collecting is enough to keep me out of them.
There's an old thread around here about vehicle black boxes. Since 2014 all new cars are required to have a Black Box. But these black boxes don't even begin to collect the amount of personal information that the new generation of vehicles do. Louise's 2023 Volvo with Google Auto and Apple access is sucking it ALL in --driving data, places traveled, even text & phone calls come through the dash computer.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/gm-onstar-driver-data.html
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers - The New York Times
paywall? Here's the salient part...
The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers' mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.'s internet-connected cars that collected data about how the car had been driven and promised feedback and digital badges for good driving.
Some drivers said their insurance rates had increased as a result of the captured data, which G.M. shared with two brokers, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk. The firms then sold the data to insurance companies.
Since Wednesday, "OnStar Smart Driver customer data is no longer being shared with LexisNexis or Verisk,"