General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
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G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers.

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.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The class action lawsuit will wipe out that piddly revenue stream a hundred times over.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Oh sorry, Supreme Court has been working overtime the last decade to limit those. Probably thrown out.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I just bought a dryer and it had a piece of paper taped to it that said “By using this appliance you agree to have all disputes handled by third-party arbitration by the party of our choice.”

        For a fucking dryer.

          • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            1, you may be able to opt out within certain purchase time depending on product, company, etc.

            1. There is a suit in CA or somewhere currently challenging the ability of appliance company to prove the notice was provided or accepted. Insane fucking companies.
            • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              8 months ago

              ActivisionBlizzard just changed the terms of games I bought nearly three decades ago…