In its continued concentration on the collection and use of consumers’ precise geolocation, on January 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ...

If your car was made by General Motors, it may know a lot about you and be spilling the beans to credit bureaus — whether you ...

Biometric Update previously reported that cross-referenced anonymized disparate datasets can lead to de-anonymization and identification of individuals.

GM and subsidiary OnStar, which operates a roadside assistance service, will also be banned from sharing drivers’ precise geolocation and other data, and they will be required to provide more ...

General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar agreed to a settlement that prohibits them from sharing driver location and behavior data with third parties, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday.

Those concerns, articulated in the US watchdog's formal legal complaint [PDF] against the car maker, are that GM "collected precise geolocation data from millions of Gen10+ OnStar vehicles through a ...

General Motors will be banned for five years from disclosing data that it collects from drivers to consumer reporting agencies as part of a settlement with the government to resolve claims that the au ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday announced a settlement agreement with General Motors and its OnStar subsidiary ...

The agency alleged that GM and its OnStar technology through its now-discontinued Smart Driver program collected and sold drivers' location and driving history information from millions of ...

U.S. regulators took aim at General Motors Co. and its OnStar unit late Thursday, saying that they had taken their first-ever action related to connected-vehicle data. The Federal Trading ...

The agreement will be in force for 20 years, GM said. The proposed order would prohibit GM and OnStar from sharing such data to consumer reporting agencies for five years. Need a break?