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- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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.
The article is pay walled, but there’s no way they’re not selling that data. They’ll just sell it to a different middleman that isn’t technically a “data broker”.
Yeah it’s a data broker broker. Totally legit.
“We didn’t sell it to a data broker. We sold it to Jeff. Not our fault if Jeff sold it to a data broker”