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GM banned from sharing driving and location data with insurance companies
The order bans the automaker from selling consumers' information to data brokers for five years.
“GM monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,” FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said in a statement. Thursday’s settlement with the FTC follows an investigation by The New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, who found GM had been collecting details about its customers’ driving habits — including every instance of hard braking, late night driving, and speeding — and selling the records to insurance companies and third-party data brokers. Previously, she covered social media for Forbes.com, and her work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, i-D (Vice) and more.
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