GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums
General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC "to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart Driver program."
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 particular task that collected and transmitted precise geolocation data every three seconds."
OnStar is GM's subscription-based, in-car communic...
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